Typewriter art: sometimes a picture really is worth a
thousand words

This portrait of Nicole Kidman proves that some pictures really are
worth a thousand words. A close-up [inset right] reveals that it
was "drawn" on a typewriter
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Keira Rathbone spends up to 90 hours on each
picture, hammering away on a variety of letters and punctuation
marks thousands and thousands of times
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...and Kate Moss. Keira, from Poole, Dorset,
discovered her talent after buying a 1960s typewriter for £5 in a
charity shop
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She uses her right index finger to bash out the letters while her
left hand winds the paper up and down
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