In 2019, 34 year-old former high school art teacher, Erik Jensen, took a leap of faith – he quit his job to pursue art full-time. Born deaf, Jensen spent a year inventing a way to dye computer keys using a chemical process that lightly burns the plastic, making it receptive to brilliant colors. Apple keyboards are his favorite medium, especially early 2000s models with clear backs. The rarest white keys produce cool tones like blues and purples, while old beige keys shine in greens and oranges. Each key becomes a pixel, and together, they form vivid, larger-than-life portraits. Today, Jensen’s art hangs in the offices of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and more. He’s turned nearly 1.2 million keys from 14,000 keyboards into pieces that sell for $5,000 to $80,000. Some depict tech icons like Bill Gates, Grace Hopper, and Steve Jobs – each built from exactly 1,024 keys to mirror the structure of a kilobyte. #TechNews #DigitalArt #Innovation #KeyboardArt #technology Like what you’re read...