Creating ascii art in Illustrator

Hello,
This is my first time posting and I'm hoping you can help me.
I'd like to color letters of a text so that from afar the colored letters look like an image. The perfect example is ascii art - each character is colored appropriately so that as a whole it depicts an image of some sort.
My question is this: How do you color each letter to an image I have already created? I've tried playing with opacity masks but that colors the text as well as the background [of the text]. I only want the text to be colored.
Can you please tell me how I can achieve this?
Thank you.

I've tried playing with opacity masks but that colors the text as well as the background...
Don't use the artwork to mask the text; use the text to mask the artwork. Be aware, of course, an opacity mask does not address the problem of characters that are "split" by two adjacent colors:
JET

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