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2008-09-04 15:00:03

From Wired.com







Typewriters Morph Into Creepy Sci-Fi Creatures
By


Jenna Wortham

09.01.08


Jeremy Mayer collects antique typewriters, but he doesn't display them
in a curio cabinet. Instead, he tears them apart, then turns the
components into sleek, sci-fi-inspired bugs, skeletons and anatomically
correct human figures.
Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci's
mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros
William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without
welding, soldering or gluing.
Above: It takes roughly 40 typewriters and 1,000 hours
for Mayer to assemble a full-scale figurine like this reclining female
form. He's made only three full-size human figures over the last 14
years, but as he prepares for a spring show in San Diego, he'll
construct four in 2008.
"I'd been trying to get my figures to look less creepy," said Mayer.
"This one has so much personality and presence, which helps."
Photos courtesy Jeremy Mayer

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