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Like many artists in the days of Photoshop, Erik Jensen uses the computer to create his paintings. Editing programs have become a basic tool for photography, film and design in general. However, Jensen focuses on another part of the teams: keyboards . Specifically, the keys.

The artist boasts on his page of reusing pieces that not even the recycling companies can take advantage of. To do this you must first clean the keyboards, take out all the keys and dye them with special inks, a process that you do by hand and that allows you to have at your disposal all the colors you need.

Although it seems that he prefers not to reveal his secret recipe, as can be seen in the final result (and as he assures himself), the process changes the color of the key while preserving the letter, number or character to which it corresponded.

In this way, he achieves "various shades of all kinds of colors" that he combines with the natural ones of the keyboards themselves: black, white, gray and beige, so common in offices a few decades ago . Jensen, by the way, accepts donations of keyboards, although only if it is a considerable amount (from 20 onwards) due to the associated logistics, shipping and environmental problems.

As the artist himself explains on his website, he began to make these paintings in 2013, although he did not do it as a business (he accepts commissions from companies and individuals) until 2017 and full time a year later.

Each of the paintings that he commissioned takes between two and three months of work, although it is due more to the volume than to the process itself, as he confesses. The price, of course, can be estimated at the key: $ 1.20 for each of them. The minimum, by the way, is 1,000 pieces (about $ 1,100).

However, in his gallery you can find his version of other famous paintings and works, such as The Great Wave of Kanagawa (4,400 pieces, $ 7,100), The Creation of Adam (the very posterizable detail of the hands, to be exact; 4,500 pieces and $ 7,200), The girl with the pearl (3,250 pieces - of which six correspond to the pearl - $ 5,200) and even Michelangelo's David, but in a painting version, not sculpture (4,000 exact pieces, $ 6,000 , also exact). As far as his original creations are concerned, they range from the abstract to a portrait of Alan Turing passing through -of course- a cat.

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