Victor Nunes and his characteristic artworks

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Victor Nunes is from Portugal, currently living in Sao Paulo, and his peculiarity is the ability to turn little and discarded objects of daily use in little characters, capable of showing emotions and telling a story.

With the help of a pen or a pencil, he gives shape and meaning to curls of salad, scissors, candy wrappers and more.

This form of art is called 'Pareidolia' and is a psychic process that transforms casual shapes in reasonable shapes like faces, animals and figures.

Letting the unconscious take control and make us see something that wouldn't be there with a more rational glance.
His illustrations invite us to look at the world in a different way, searching the beauty in everyday objects that surround us.