You have to hand it to fine artists.

They use pen and ink, pigment and bristle, clay and stone to help define how they view the world and the creation around them.  It is a personal form of expression of one human being and a delight for the rest of us to see glimpses of their mind’s eye captured onto canvas.

But what makes some artists stand out from others and really make a name for themselves in the Art Community is sometimes not just how they do it, but what they portray their visions onto.

Take London artist Nick Gentry for instance.  He has taken a once, everyday object – the floppy disk drive -  and turned them into the canvas on which he paints and creates his mixed-media portraits.

As he puts it:

The whole world was totally reliant on these physical media formats,” he says. “Now suddenly we are at a time where they are obsolete, replaced by countless intangible data files. Will humans be compatible with our own technology? I looked at using the disks in a grid to create photo-fits, constructing imaginary faces and identities that could draw connections to the personal information stored on the disks”

The number of floppy disks he uses can be anywhere from 6 disks (small painting) to much larger paintings that utilize 100 disks.

The going rate to add a Nick Gentry original to your home art collection?  Anywhere from $470 to $1100.

Glad to see someone is making use of those old floppys aside from coasters and mini-frisbees.