Faces painted on recycled cigar cases
What Jorgino from Germany does with his empty small cigar cases is very cool. Instead of throwing them away, he uses them to sketch his so-called “faceboxes“. He’s done more than a hundred so far. I have no clue how this impacts his lungs, but the respective creative output is certainly swell.
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