The artist who recycles the old computer keyboards giving life to splendid pixel effect paintings

There are many artists with a green soul: there are those who recover old unusable piano transforming them into wonderful Phoenicians, those who recycle the beached wood giving life to a multiplicity of animals, those who reuse the dry corn leaves. And then there is Erik Jensen, a Utah artist formed at Utah Valley University, who after obtaining numerous awards on artisitic level and taught art in high school and college, decided to devote himself to Creative recovery of unused computer keyboards.

Erik recovers keys and pieces that even large companies are not able to recycle and assembles them in such a way as to give life to splendid-musical quadrockery. Before reaching the definitive, the process is long and articulated: Erik after removing and cleaning the keys he needs, colors them and slowly paste them on the chosen support, and then frame them.

Among the people favorite by the artist there are flowers, landscapes, portraits of famous people, but also great masterpieces of the arts and even logos of large companies.

His passion for keyboards was born when a professor of art challenged his class to reinvent something in a artistic key that people usually threw away. It was at that moment that Erick had the brilliant idea of ​​recovering an old keyboard he had in his hand, giving life to a face that came out of a computer screen.

He took taste and continued to experiment until after a few years, he began to create pixels effect images of extraordinary beauty.

We discover some of his most interesting works, starting from this work, commissioned by a customer, who portrays a fisherman.

Between one button and the other there is also space for romanticism!

And for the great personalities of the world …

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