Dock Icon Grapics Rendering Issue

I just started having this icon rendering issue on my dock. The finder icon has disappeared and my folders have this strange static grapic instead of the folder icon. Initially all icons were like this, but opening refreshes the icon and it loads properly.
Has anybody encountered this issue before? Any advice as to the source of this problem would be much appreciated.

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