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Wood Puzzle Portraits by Carol T Chung
Eric Quebral has embraced wood as a medium once again with these elegant iconic character portraits. Each background is composed of the parts for a wooden toy puzzle version of the gun. Sure, I could sit here and write about how great and hot this work is, but I don't really need to, now do I? Check out the link for previous sneaker inspired work shown on Cool Hunting.
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