An artist who has used a typewriter to recreate famous paintings and portraits of cultural figures has said he did it to prove that “some technologies will never die” amid uncertainty surrounding social media platforms in the digital age.
James Cook, 26, who splits his time between Braintree, Essex and his studio at London’s Trinity Buoy Wharf, recently completed a series of seven typewritten pieces of art, based off of famous paintings and portraits of artists including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Grant Wood’s American Gothic.
He told the PA news agency that one of the main reasons behind the project was to highlight the fact that “some technologies will never die”.
