Canon Powershot A1000IS

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #007 - This shadow box piece stands 9-1/4 inches high, 11-1/8 inches wide and 3 inches deep.  Retail price, $250.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This was actually my sixth creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art".  To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art.

Collage Background: This camera, a Canon Powershot A1000IS 10MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom, was given to my by my friend Harvey Smith, who dropped and broke it while we were hiking near the Arizona Hot Springs. In memory of this incident, I titled this, “Dripped! DEAD 02/04/2013”.

Silicon Valley

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #006 - This shadow box piece stands 17-inches high, 13-inches wide and 3-1/2 inches deep Comprised of eleven individual stones, it stands 3 inches high, 7-1/2 inches wide and 3 inches deep. Retail price, $350.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This was actually my sixth creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art".  To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art. Collage Background: This collage is comprised of circuit boards, keyboard wiring circuitry, and a electronic pieces from variety of electronic ‘gadgets’ including disassembled printers, computers, scanners, cell phones, camera, etc. It is all set in a three-inch deep glass enclosed shadow box. Having sprayed the inside surfaces yellow, I then covered these surfaces with the transparent circuit diagrams that I retrieved from several keyboards. The lines on these kind of represent the roads or streets within the city.  I then arranged various tan and green circuit boards to represent the ‘city blocks’, with their attached  transistors, plugs, diodes, chips, etc., being representational of ‘buildings’, ‘water towers’, ‘arenas’, ‘warehouses’, etc. One could even construe that each green circuit board represents a ‘campus’ with its ‘buildings’ surrounded by grass and the circuits themselves being the paths and walkways. It is nearly impossible to appreciate the three dimensional effect of this piece in a photograph; it has to be seen to be truly appreciated.

Pentax IQZoom

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #005 - This shadow box framed piece stands 11-1/2 inches high, 11-1/2 inches wide and 2-1/4 inches deep Retail price, $275.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This camera was the fifth creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art". To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art.

Collage Background: Though black backgrounds seem to work well for these collages, I decided to try something new this time and sprayed the inside of the cardboard for the box frame yellow. I think it made for a good contrasting color against the black, green and bronze colored pieces. This camera was one that was using prior to the purchase of the Olympus in Collage #002.

Maxtor 80GB HDD

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #004 - This shadow box framed piece stands 16-1/2 inches high, 20-1/2 inches wide and 3-1/2 inches deep Retail price, $130.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This external hard drive was the fourth creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art". To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art.

Collage Background: Owning these can bring back memories. I can remember that my first purchase of an external drive for my double floppy drive computer was 10MB. Then I bought this 80GB drive. I then bought a 250MB external drive that I still use, even though my computer now had 1TB of internal storage on two 500GB drives. Though I had hoped to end up with more pieces from this item, many of the screws appeared to be ‘cemented’ or glued in place making it too difficult or impossible to take apart any further without damaging the pieces. This collage was arranged on a piece of black foam-board and then encased inside of a box frame.

Sanyo SCP-4700

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #003 - This shadow box framed piece stands 14 inches high, 11 inches wide and 3-1/2 inches deep Retail price, $150.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This cellphone was the third creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art". To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art.

Collage Background: This phone was kind of a disappointment, only due to the fact that it didn’t have as many pieces inside as I had hoped. This collage was arranged on a piece of black foam-board and then encased inside of a box frame.

Olympus D-450 ZOOM

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #002 - This shadow box framed piece stands 11 inches high, 14 inches wide and 3-1/2 inches deep Retail price, $250.00; plus packing and shipping.  Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: Even though this camera was the inspiration for these projects, it was the second creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art". To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art.

Collage Background: As I was building this one I began to realize how often we have a tendency to replace things such as cameras, cell phones, computers, printers, etc., and vowed to never throw anything like that away again. I only wish that I still had some of the hundreds of ‘electronic’ items that I have thrown away over the years. For some unknown reason the lens failed to retract all the way from its zoomed out position. After a failed attempt at taking it apart and trying to lubricate and fix it, I had the idea of using the parts for a collage. Probably the most painstaking part of creating these collages is disassembling the items without 'breaking' some of the more delicate pieces. Once I had a table full of pieces, I began the arrangement process on a piece of black foam-board. Once completed, I encased it inside a box frame.

Handspring Visor

Series: Recycled Wall Art - Collage #001 - This framed piece stands 23-1/2 inches high, 19-1/2 inches wide and 1-1/2 inches deep  Retail price, $450.00; plus packing and shipping. Purchase information can be obtained by e-mailing me directly at kccandcj@yahoo.com.

Series Background: This was actually my first creation for my Eco-Art series titled, "Recycled Wall Art".  To learn more about this series, click the tab ECO Art. Collage Background: I built this one to remind me of the hundreds of dollars that I had invested over time, not only in the original purchase, but also in a variety of plug-ins and attachments. This collage is comprised of the screen, circuit boards, keyboard button controls, batteries and other internal components from my Handspring Visor. It also includes the desktop charger, various plugin attachments such as MemPlug and the attachable keyboard from Stowaway. I took a plain white, stretched canvas on a wood frame and spray painted it black. Leaving a half-inch boarder all the way around for framing, I organized the pieces to fit within the allotted boundary and began gluing them down. Finally, I had it framed.