Gadgetory

my name is Jeremy mayor and I make sculptures of typewriter parts in the last 23 years I've been doing this I've taken apart probably 300 my studio is my the inside of my head i disassemble mechanical typewriters not the word processor type but the very mechanical heavy old ones there's no machine that's more more transparent about what it's doing that a typewriter it's operated by you you push a button and you see all of the machinery in motion this is a really interesting stuff right here where I see like I could look that person up going from typewriter to sculpture I can just do a sketch and and work toward the sketch I don't solder or glue or weld when I do this I just use the parts from the typewriter I counted the components and the the big human figures are around 2000 2500 depending on how crazy I get 250 plus typewriters in my collection and I would say that 90% of them are in perfect working order the typewriter doesn't judge you it just goes right away sir movie California typewriter it's a feature-length documentary and Tom Hanks is in it John Mayer Sam Shepard David McCullough representing the future is me talking about this transition of technology that we're experiencing that we've been experiencing for a long time going from analog to digital personally typing on a typewriter is torture for me I have one and I write thank-you notes and stuff but that's how people know I care about them because I'm torturing myself to write to them I think the younger generation could definitely appreciate the typewriter more by seeing these sculptures because it's turning them inside out it shows all of these ingenuity and time spent man-hours that went into designing these machines you