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This 67" x 59" mosaic of Mick Jagger was created with 6,500 recycled computer keys from old computer keyboards.
Currently featured and available in my private collection
Music: Gimme Shelter By The Rolling Stones
https://youtu.be/EcfEqvRKQHY
Their is a word search hidden throughout the art spelled out with the keys of The Rolling Stones most popular songs recorded over the lifetime of the band.
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need"

Tumbling Dice
Midnight Rambler
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Start Me Up
Beast of Burden
She’s A Rainbow
Wild Horses
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Sympathy for the Devil
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Angie

The innovative artist Doug Powell creates the illusion of three-dimensional form through the use and arrangement of recycled or up-cycled computer keyboard keys. Each computer key cap has a unique, tangible history that bears the weathered patina of thousands of uses. “I want the viewer to ponder the infinite, profound combination of thoughts, ideas and inspirations that have surely passed through this intellectual porthole...all made possible with just the common computer key,” Powell said. From a distance, the three-dimensional mosaics look like a textured painting, but closer examination reveals an unexpected landscape of hidden words, phrases and quotes intimately related to the work. In effect, the viewer gets a little history...