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Vintage Typewriters Are Reassembled into Amazing Metallic Bird Sculptures by Jeremy Mayer

All images © Jeremy Mayer, shared with permission Jeremy Mayer challenges the notion that typewriters’ creative output is confined to the written word. The artist scours shops and trash bins near his Bay Area studio for analog processors in disrepair that he then disassembles, sorts, and reconstructs into metallic sculptures. […]

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Symmetrical Typewriter Sculptures by Artist Jeremy Mayer Merge the Organic and Manufactured

“Untitled II” (2020), typewriter parts and aluminum, 65 x 65 x 12 inches “There’s nothing unnatural about mechanical components,” Jeremy Mayer says. For decades, the artist has harbored a fascination with the repetitive, complex patterns of single-cell organisms and the delicately rendered illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, an attraction that manifests […]

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An Ornate Truck Spot-Welded from Thousands of Reflective Steel Disks by Valay Shende

[…] driver’s seat but in reality it remains stationary. Transit is currently on view at the Mumbai City Museum, and you can read more about it on Indian Express. Images courtesy Sakshi Gallery. (via Jeremy Mayer) https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-8.jpg truck-8 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-1.jpg truck-1 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-2.jpg truck-2 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-3.jpg truck-3 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-4.jpg truck-4 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-5.jpg truck-5 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-6.jpg truck-6 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/truck-7.jpg truck-7

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New Typewriter Part Birds by Jeremy Mayer

Artist Jeremy Mayer (previously) just completed this beautiful set of swallows using assembled typewriter parts. The pieces required Mayer to find multiple sets of identical parts adding a significant amount of time to sourcing materials, but as a happy accident the artist also discovered his design allowed for the wings […]

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Skull Made of Typewriter Parts by Jeremy Mayer

Artist Jeremy Mayer (previously) recently completed a new sculpture titled Skull I made from vintage typewriter parts. As with all of his assemblages the skull was created without use of welding or adhesives, instead the parts are bent, screwed, and bolted into place using only components extracted from typewriters. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/skull-1-640×953.jpg […]

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