Most of the slugs have a number 5 stamped on them

On average, I buy around 70 typewriter ribbons every three months. I probably use them more than anyone else on the planet. This is what I do every day, and I don’t know many people who can say the same.

When I started out back in 2014, I would print out artworks by Paul Smith and study them under a magnifying glass to better understand how he tackled certain subjects or material textures, be it fabrics, water, grass, reflections and along the way, I have developed my own techniques as well.

One drawing can take me anywhere between three to four weeks to type and contain more than 1 million individually typed letters, numbers, and punctuation marks all puzzle-pieced together.

Paul Smith, an American artist who lived with cerebral palsy and created extraordinary artworks using a typewriter. As a child, Paul was given a typewriter by his parents. Because of his condition, he couldn’t hold pens or pencils, and like any parent, they wanted to help him learn to write. The mechanical control of a typewriter not only allowed him to do that with precision, but also unlocked a way for him to express himself artistically.

Cook has been creating art with typewriters for nearly a decade. Though each piece can take weeks to complete, the prolific artist has produced over 300 works to date.

I’m so excited by the wide carriage, I use my typewriter to edition prints and drawings, and I’m so excited to be able to edition larger ones now.

Inspired by the discarded typewriters and the ubiquitous construction materials she saw all over Berlin, she created "Writer's Block," an art installation with rebar-caged writing implements placed in Bebelplatz, where in 1933 Nazis burned piles of books.