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Lipstick Applicator

By Mia Roberts 2025

A PIR sensor wired to a relay that powers a motor. The work when looked at applies lipstick to itself, eventually wearing down from a perfect circle to something clogged, messy and smeared.

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In Memory of Stanislaw Lem

If id’ve known about death, id’ve wished I’d never been born (conversation with a Holyhead local at a funeral)

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