The keys to success: How artist Erik Jensen created incredible pieces out of old keyboards

What do the Statue of Liberty and Marilyn Monroe have in common with the Mona Lisa, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring? They’ve all been given a thoroughly modern remake – and it’s as much for the sake of saving the planet as it is in the name of art.

These works are the creation of Erik Jensen, a deaf artist from Utah in the US who has found a unique way to reuse old computer keyboards that usually clog landfills.

“I like to use something that people are connected to,” Erik says.