Jeremy Mayer

Jeremy is an expert of taking things apart and using the pieces to make something very special. His medium is old typewriters. His process is pretty much exactly what I just said, taking apart old typewriters and finding the form that is hidden inside them. This is why I chose to cover Jeremy. I really appreciate how he uses the material withing an already made object in order to take something that already works and change the purpose of it. Not only that, but I think that the way he arranges the parts often times is really engaging. 

"Cold Assembly" Jeremy Mayer, 1994

The cool thing about most of his pieces is that it looks like there is a possibility that is could work. It seems like if you had one of those old wind-up keys to plug into it, you could literally bring it to life. Features like the ears, eyes, and hip joints seem to infer that the old typewriter was really meant to represent a cat in the beginning and that is why i really like his works. You can almost seem the process of him seeing the pieces and relating them to a specific object. 

Jeremy Mayer, 1994

Again, this is one of his works where you can see that he found the pieces and immediately thought of a specific body part. Things like the old keys that make up the fingers seem to have really been created to be fingers of something but were accidentally put into a typewriter factory. There is one thing that I don't find appealing about this figure and that is the proportions. At this angle it seems as though the head is really too big.