I share your opinion on all accounts: very merry gifts, with added depth for the frottage technique (dab not spread) and I would put them up with the best of art. @onnovocks and I had a huge debate over dinner recently, about whether Pininfarina is a (very talented) car designer or an artist (as if one outdoes the other), but in this case I don't think we'd argue: the Things are Artists with a capital A by my (superior of course - not going to lose this argument too!) definition of art: you can't do anything with it and you don't have to understand it even, but it WILL show you something if you look at it long enough.
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