Jeremy Mayer: Typewriter assemblage sculpture

Oakland, USA, based Jeremy Mayer is a typewriter freak, and not in the expected manner of collecting vintage typewriters and restoring them to functionality, polishing and burnishing them to be stored in a personal museum of sorts. He does the opposite. He takes them apart – but with the sole intention of putting them back together in staggeringly imaginative sculptural articulations. I have a distinct affinity towards acts of purposeful and creative recycling, or in this case, re-assemblage, via which industrial produce that has lived its perceived utility and is discarded (considered ‘junk’) is put to use again in creative and imaginative ways. Mayer is an exceptional talent, for he uses no solders and welds, but works entirely with manual, and some might say, old fashioned tools, like the screwdriver and the pliers. If you have ever used typewriters, here is an opportunity to appreciate them, from a different perspective. Take a look.

 

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Gage
Gage
10 years ago

altered art the same as recycled art i suppose, because you take something that exsits for another purpose and making it into new art

saloni
saloni
10 years ago

superlike!

musicistabest
musicistabest
10 years ago

I wish a lot of the computing age waste is put to some creative reassembly, reuse…I shudder to think of my own handset an pc/laptop graveyard…multiply it zillion times

Rubina S
Rubina S
10 years ago

Subcribed to ur blog. Keep them coming……

Kevin
Kevin
10 years ago

i came across his work last year, i still think it is unique..ty for the revisit

Rishi
Rishi
10 years ago

How inventive is this? :) marvellous!