Floppy disks and film negatives get a second life as the canvases for British artist Nick Gentry’s portraits. While his materials may consist of obsolete technology, the results are haunting and often curiously futuristic.
Infinite Echoes, 2009
Navigator, 2010
Auto Emotion, 2010
History, 2010
Status, 2010
Time Machine, 2011
Residual Memory, 2011
Lucid heart, 2011
Life Story, 2011
Super Killers, 2011
Klondike GZ, 2011
Profile Number 6, 2012
Profile Number 7, 2012
Lost Moments, 2012
D Base, 2013
American Heritage, 2013
Kaleidoscope, 2013
All We Are, 2013
Invader, 2013
Omega, 2013
Starlight, 2013
1978, 2014
Monarch, 2014
Freizeit, 2014
Deja vu, 2014
We Were There, 2014
M, 2014
Surface, 2014
Fade, 2014
Metropolis, 2014
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The images are from Nick Gentry’s Flickr stream and Facebook page, except when noted otherwise.
