After have been given a typewriter as a gift, artist Leslie Nichols started to write, but since she didn´t think she was a very skilled writer, she instead began to create drawings with the letters. This development evolved into her professional work and the results are these interesting and beautiful textual portraits.

In the video, Leslie talks about her background as an artist and takes us through her working process:

Featured image: Jeanne (Pizan 1405; Spencer 1913)