I've worked with computers on the hardware and software side for over 20 years. At a young age I became interested in storage, it was even my top wish for a present one year, a lovely 512 MB hard drive! In my first job I did a bunch of hardware repair and as part of that I occasionally took apart hard drives. I thought these platters so close to each other all perfectly round and smooth and reflective, looked very cool. From this point in my life I saved a 5 1/4 platter stack of 12, from some old 1GB SCSI drive, and when I bought my first house I hung it up in the basement, near my servers. Since then I've moved around a few times and every time I would hang them up in the basement. Years past and my work focused much more on the software side and I rarely ever did anything with hardware. While working on cleaning out the basement one day I came across a box from my first job of miscellaneous computer parts, a few CPUs here, a few platters there, and a bunch of random ram that would never be useful again. I paused a bit and thought about the platters hanging on the ceiling and the platters in the box, and thought it could be cool to make some sculpture out of them. I started reading up on the history of hard drives and began collecting old drives from the 50s through the 90s. As I was brainstorming ideas of things to make, I came up with the idea to make collages that could be hung up on the wall like paintings. I intend to make many different types of art from these platters, but mostly right now I give you platter wall art. My goal is to recycle 90% of what I don't use in my art.