Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain

Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain

WBK (workbyknight)

Digital Art, Photomanipulation

Digital Photo

2012

The artist who remains anonymous as WBK (workbyknight) is an Australian underground artist who has been posting his work online for some time now. He uses photos of famous celebrities or important political figures and changes it by creating the same image out of keyboard keys and other types of old typing sets. He makes very realistic images using these tools and that are now out dated. 

The artist grew up using technology his whole life and began to witness how everything is changing by using different types of technology. Using keyboards and phones when he was younger, he began to think of how the world has changed and how he can illustrate how. He began to show this by creating the pictures out of items from the "analogue past" and began to use these items as to show how they are not obsolete at this day and age. 

The piece is a photo of two celebrity music stars who both committed suicide at a young age. Kurt Cobain ( the front man and song writer of Nirvana) is shown with a gun, which resembles the way he committed suicide. Amy Winehouse is shown with a bottle of alcohol, resembling how the singer passed away from a drug overdose. Both celebrities are shown through the keys and buttons from various types of keyboards and typewriters.

This piece shows how this underground artist has crafted a picture using tools that one would think odd. The creativity and time are what show his dedication to capturing the power in the image. The portrait is a great example of how a person can create a picture of two people and have alot of factors that make it artistic. 

(LeRoy Reynolds)