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Typewriter art          

By. Paul Smith          

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Each keystroke takes him a minute or more, sometimes hours.

I find it most puzzling how he's able to place the characters in precisely the right spot, because typewriters are notoriously prone to making characters too high or too low on the page.  And trying to anticipate where a mark will end up by using the carriage release and rolling the knob around like they show him doing seems like an enormous reach, even for someone without any disability.  

So this is really more amazing to me than first meets the eye, the more I think about it.  

Don't overlook the fact that Paul Smith has nothing but good things to say about other people, and he evokes that same charity from everyone else, and they say his religious faith is what keeps him going --- all the while he has conspicuously Catholic artwork that he has typed, hanging in his private room, even if the works posted in the hallways are only nature scenes, famous subjects, political leaders, popular interest and celebrities.

IOW he is a victim of Liberal intolerance since his religious works would 'offend' some viewers.  Even so, he does not complain about it.  

I would like to ask him if he offers up his difficulties and daily sufferings as a penance to God for sins, or if he has ever thought about that idea.  Maybe he doesn't even think of them as "sufferings."  

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Awesome!