Arizona artist, Joe Dragt recycles obsolete technology with a
novel twist, making the circuit board his medium of choice:
His ongoing circuit board series started just this year, when his work required that he send more than thirty old computers to a local company for recycling:
'Seeing the stack of old computers, the idea struck me: the motherboards would make a really neat canvas; the complexity and patterns of all the circuits could make for stunning backgrounds.'
He recycles 100% of the computers, meticulously taking out every screw and separating pieces into categories accordingly, saving the motherboards to make such pieces as those viewable on his website:
