AT-AT Walkers And Futurama's Bender Sneak Into Thrift Store Paintings

Dave Pollot's upcycled paintings are the latest in the curious fad of sci-fi characters visiting painted lakeside cottages.

"This story, as with so many others, starts with a lady," says Dave Pollot. In Pollot's case, the lady is his girlfriend, and the story is how he came to start painting the likes of Bender from Futurama onto chintzy paintings found at thrift stores. "On one particular visit [to a thrift store], we both poked fun at some of the more (or less I suppose) 'interesting' artwork that lined the floors, and we joked that it might be fun to paint funny things into them," Pollot tells Co.Design. "The rest is history."

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