This weird little sculpey looking alien came from the dollar tree in the late 90s and it’s such a distinct, imaginative and highly detailed design but it isn’t from anything. It’s also a stamp but obviously very dried up. There was just one other thing in the set, a robot spaceman counterpart.
IMMEDIATE UPDATE I moistened the stamp and it’s like brand new. Also, the stamp is just the same nameless alien’s face.
You could never even possibly know what this is a stamp of without seeing the entire thing first.
The American Ballet Theatre is debuting its first same-sex pas de deux tonight, performed by Calvin Royal III and João Menegussi. A snippet of the performance has been circulating on TikTok (above), and it’s so beautiful, I was moved to tears. I tried to capture the tenderness of these thirty seconds in charcoal and pencil as best as I could. (Below.)
