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Artist creates portraits of authors using their own words as the medium

Posted by / May 17, 2011

American artist and author John Sokol found a way to merge his two passions into one awesome portrait series. Using the words straight from their works, Sokol was able to craft the authors’ faces in pretty cursive writing. See some of his pieces below:

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Elizabeth Hardwick as Sleepless Nights

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Ezra Pound as The Cantos

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James Joyce as Ulysses

See them all at Amusing Planet.

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