Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Artist Blog 24: Keira Rathbone

Keira Rathbone goes retro and creates art with a typewriter. She creates buildings, nature, and humans with using only the symbols and letters on a typewriter. From a distance the art work just looks like pen but when you look up close it is crazy to see all the familiar symbols put together to create a picture. Her artwork must be very difficult because of the precision that is needed to place a symbol and create an actual figure. I find it interesting how Rathbone uses a typewriter instead of a computer. Maybe she is looking for an antique quality a computer cant produce. Some of the buildings Rathbone has made to me look like houses build before there were typewriters. I think it would be cool to create types of buildings that would be used in the decades of when typewriters were used. It is crazy how much detail is put into here work. Some of the photos dont even look like they are made out of typewriters symbols. The brinks in the house look like normal bricks I cant see the symbols in them. I personally can not believe how these pictures are made. It must take a lot of time to plot out were to put a symbol. The work of the women looks like it could be an actual sketching.

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