California-based artist Andrew Myers uses an unlikely material to create his tactile portraits—screws.
Using between 8,000 to 10,000 screws for each portrait, the artist painstakingly paints the heads of the screws before drilling them into a backing back made of telephone book pages.
Acting like the pixels of a digital picture, the screws are gradually assembled into a coherent picture of the subject.
The undulating surface of the portraits produces amazing textures and gives them a curious, life-like quality.
[via Andrew Myers]