Drawings on CDs, DVDs

Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval diviner and nun whose music made it onto CDs

A woman in the era of the Middle Ages was doomed to seclusion within the walls of a house or monastery, and the fair sex did not even dream of realizing her talents and capabilities in several areas of activity at once. The biography of Hildegarda Bingen, whose name has been preserved in the history of world culture for almost a thousand years now seems to be all the more striking and outstanding

Sculptures of birds and animals from broken CDs. Original artwork by Sean Avery

Australian sculptor Sean Avery still buys CDs in stores in bulk, in large quantities. Why does he prefer them to flash drives and external HDDs? Sean is a creative person, and creative people are weird. The sculptor not only buys discs, but also breaks them into small pieces to then turn the fragments into figurines of birds, animals and insects

Sculptures from CDs by George Reidbaugh

With the advent of televisions, tape recorders, DVD players, computers and other equipment in the twentieth century, representatives of the artistic environment have significantly expanded the list of materials suitable for creativity. Instead of canvases, artists can now use floppy disks, as Nick Gentry does, a girl named iRI5 paints portraits not with paints, but with cassette tape, and sculptor Stephen Rodrigue prefers to work not with marble or bronze, but with obsolete computer parts. To this company of authors excellent

Digital water lilies. New Life CDs from Bruce Munro

Compact discs, which were quite common a few years ago, very quickly turned from the main means of distributing digital information into unnecessary garbage that wasted space on the shelves. Someone throws them away, having copied the data to other media a long time ago, and someone uses them for various purposes. The latter include, for example, Bruce Munro, who recently created a hundred giant water lilies from these discs

Drawings on CDs, DVDs (take 2)

And here is the continuation of the previous collection of painting on disks. Yes, I do not argue, maybe this is a banal children's activity, but how much pleasure it brings to me, others))) This is what serves as a further incentive to create new pictures