Disc Minis series

You Can’t Hurry Love, 2019
disc fragments, adhesive, acrylic display cube

Starting in 2015, an ongoing series in my studio practice is “Disc Minis.” These small sculptural collages are made from the fragments of discs that break during installation of my larger sculptures.

The discs that have been donated over the years range from a couple's wedding mix to recordable discs that wouldn't burn, from album singles that never sold to a video game that was played so much it is too scratched to work.  As these were donated and have become woven into a collective consciousness of plastic and metal many discs break in the process. These breaks happen in fabrication, installation, de-installation, shipping, and so on.  I collect the fragments and use them to create these smaller collages. 

I think about the broken discs as a fragment of a song, a scene from a movie, a paragraph of an audio book, but in all cases as memories that can not be accessed.  These no longer can spin in a disc drive to play to find out what is on it; however, the memory of memories is present.  In these smaller works, I seek to create collages that give these disc fragments a final spot where each is part of a design that spirals, weaves, and explores in a more limited compositional format.

To see more variations of these as they have developed over the years, check out Disc Fragments.