Artist Doug Geiger creates beautiful engravings using the "banana scrimshaw" technique

Artist Doug Geiger's

I really love artwork by Doug Geiger, who uses bananas — yes, actual real, fresh bananas — as a canvas, and a tattoo machine, sans ink, as a drawing instrument in a technique he calls "banana scrimshaw." These simple tools result in beautiful engravings that are incredibly detailed and heartbreakingly ephemeral. On his website, he pr…