31 August 2010

Today is Tuesday. Here is a typewriter.

A realistic sculpture of a person lounging with one knee up and both feet touching. Made entirely out of typewriter parts. This full-scale, anatomically correct figure by Jeremy Mayer is made entirely out of typewriter parts fitted together without soldering, welding, or glue.

According to Mayer’s website,

“I’m very interested in assembly, particularly in nature. I pay very close attention to the strong current in science and technology flowing inexorably toward an emulation of natural systems. [...]

I started working with typewriters in 1994 while living in a small town in Iowa. They’ve always been intensely interesting to me (when I was about ten years old I wanted to take apart my mother’s 1920′s Underwood), so it was natural that, having a typewriter and some free time, I would want to dissect one.”

Nude IV (Delilah)
66″x32″x36″
Typewriter parts
2009
Photo by Josh Miller

Nude IV (Delilah) by Jeremy Mayer, Josh Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

*Update: This post should probably be called, ‘Today is Tuesday. Here is another typewriter, because I screwed up the date on the auto scheduling.’ But it’s not. Double the typewriters, double the fun, etc.