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Accidental art - a thread 🧵

1. A rock-created bird shaped chip on a car windshield Image
2. The wear and scuff-marks on this boat look like a painting of an island in the sea Image
3. The girl with the pearl plate from grandma's good china. Photo by Emil Schwärzler. Image
4. "My daughter dumped out her acrylics in the sink" by Beard of the Sith Image
5. Rainstorm creates a watercolor painting on a windshield Rain_in_Arcadia
6. Pigeon poops portrait of itself on a leaf Koda_Has_A_Top_Hat
7. The broken ear-shaped handle of this Vincent van Gogh's cup Image
8. Sidewalk chalk on a tire whatup-my-glip-glops
9. Reflection of ceiling lights in a cup of coffee srslynonsensical
10. Oranges photographed through the glass panes of a greenhouse mikeleus
11. Sunset reflection on a broken mirror sivribiber
12. "I dropped some water, opened the table extension to dry and a city landscape with temples and pinnacles appeared" by Roccobot Image
13. Dust in a wine glass creates a galaxy anthson
14. Rice fields look like "stained glass" art anthson
15. It looks like a mosaic tile, but it's simply a sign that has been in the sun for too long Image
16. "A Portal to the Gods"
Medium: drier lint on ducting. anthson
17. The algae on this lake makes the photo look like an Impressionist painting Jianan Yu
18. A fence after a snowy night Greien218
19. While mixing paint, a forest-planet emerges momus_the_waste
20. A cat next to a stained glass window Image
21. Nature always finds a way Image
22. Volcanic explosion on lid sylvester49
23. These clouds resemble a child's drawing of waves

These cloud formations, known as Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, might have been the inspiration for Van Gogh’s iconic artwork, Starry Night. Image
24. Moss growing inside a bicycle seat teton_blamer
25. An object accidentally hit the wall and made a painting of a snowy town bonerificnoodles
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