RECYCLED COMPUTER FLOPPY DISKETTE PAINTINGS
”Creating a conversation between digital technology and paint,” Taylor Smith's series of floppy disk art icon paintings are made on recycled obsolete 3.5 inch plastic computer floppy disk drives. These works explore identity, privacy and collective history through portraiture and discarded technology. Smith creates a conversation between digital technology and the artist’s hand. Within each painting, the viewer is taken on a journey of discovery by exploring the details of each computer floppy disk. It is a collaboration between the artist and the creators of the data stored on these old digital computer floppy drives where the subject is as much the actual painting surface as it is the image painted upon it. Smith observes that today we go to great lengths to create a digital identity, in addition to the actual lives we live, with the belief that these digital records are only growing in importance and will outlive us all.