I love to craft, to make collages and play with materials, I only wish that my results were as artistic as Nick Gentry’s work. He takes “obsolete” items such as floppy disks and transforms them into portraits. What is great is the points in which the media used can be seen through the paint. This is more than just picking up a bunch of floppy disks and splashing some paint on them.

Image from Lost at Eminor.com

What is even cooler is that he wants people to contribute, he wants people to mail him there obsolete items for use in future pieces. If only I had known this before I could have sent him a huge box of floppy disks and cassette tapes.

Links

• Nick Gentry
• Nick Gentry Flickr
• Lost at Eminor

This is what happens far too often lately – I am flipping through the web and find this

Portable City: Jia Yu Guan, 2009, Yin Xiuzhen

All I can think is wow – how did someone even think to create this?

The idea came to he artist, Yin, while traveling. She uses clothing she finds in the cities to create the model city inside a suitcase. Nothing about the clothes  seem to signify the country or city, and in all truthfulness they were probably made hundreds of miles from the city they are representing. Aside from the ideas of urbanization and the globalization she is expressing, what I find interesting is what represents a place. I find the physical landmarks that Yin depicts and that we have come to recognize as symbols something to think about.

Links:

• Mental Floss Blog Posting
• Walker Art