Still Life with Fruit is an interior piece created from 484 individually painted 5 1/4" floppy disks arranged in a regular grid. The regularity of the grid combined with the indivuality of each disk creates a dynamic experience for the eye.

The piece is meant to be both abstract and realistic. At close range, the piece appears to be just a beautiful array of colors but from a distance a bowl of fruit is revealed. This parallels the digital image-making process where pictures are broken down into individual pixels.

Thematcially, the peice explores obsolescence and decay in the modern world; how the rate of an objects relevance in society, or to an individual is much faster than the rate of it's actual material decay. Thereby creating millions of modern relics at a faster and faster rate as technology improves at such an exponential rate. This piece reappropriates 484 of these relics, momentarily exposes this process and puts it on display for our friends and neighbors so that they might contemplate this cycle.

Of course, none of that matters, it's mostly just meant to be beautiful.