The boxes of Costco-branded tissues all looked pretty normal. Attractive, even.
Partaking of a coherent colour palette, they offered interesting pattern variations: hexagons, pointillist colours, mandala-like figures, water-colour-y landscape-ishes, abstract smears with bold brushwork, another geometrical pattern but with a 3D effect, and a paisley-ish swirl.
It’s the bold-brushwork one we’re here to talk about. Above, you’ve seen it from the side–the square-on view. Here’s the view of the corner.
A ram? A satyr? A warthog? Yes, that seems to fit best.
Keep an eye out for tissue boxes near you. A face could be right around the corner.
I agree. Warthog.
Uh, oh! Did not see that one coming! Looks to me like a designer’s sketch for a fantasy creature in the Star Wars series. A friendly one.
Laurna – 🙂 IKR? It’s a face that jumps out from nowhere. To me, some entirely natural creatures (including warthogs and nudibranchs) look like fantasy creations.
Don’t place it at your face’s height and you’ll be OK.
Barbara – 🙂 Got it!
I knew they’d get you, sooner or later!
Tom
Tom – 🙂
Took a few minutes, but now it is growing on me! No point in displaying the side, the corner makes the box.
Judith – I find that a photo often doesn’t work as well as the object itself – maybe a flattening that affects our perception of a face? Dunno. But I agree – this box wants to be displayed at an angle.
Is there a face you have not found somewhere?
I know, there are plenty more to be found….
Should we inform Costco they are selling wart hog proof tissues?
Jim R – 🙂 We’d better let the tissue-box face be our little secret. They might start charging for them.