Typewriter key jewelry is all the rage these days.  I’ve often wondered what happens to the rest of the typewriter once the keys have been removed.  Jeremy Mayer offers one option.  Mayer disassembles the machines and reconstructs them as life-size, anatomically correct human and animal figures. He’s got a great eye for detail; for determining which curve of the body lends itself to a specific piece or part of the typewriter.

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With no formal art education, he uses CAD and 3D programs to create studies for the sculptures which are joined using only cold connections.  You won’t find any welded or soldered metal holding these bodies down.  Mayer says that each full-scale figure takes about 1,200 hours to complete.

Cat X

Cat X, detail

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Nude II

The artist at work in his studio

Watch Mayer at work here

Read more about Mayer here

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