Obsolete Technology + Obsolete Creatures = Peter McFarlane

I love seeing artists use found objects; it could be painting on a log or scrap metal or the use of old bikes to build a giant venomous duck. The re-use of old or found items is always pleasing. Now I find artist Peter McFarlane using discarded old and obsolete circuit boards to create a combination of dated technology and sometimes dated living things. His circuit board sculptures as he puts it “were a logical outgrowth of the more two-dimensional landscapes, using nature as a model and creating delicate objects out of these obsolete, but formerly cutting-edge technologies”.

Not only does he do fossils but but various sculpts and installations along the way with a wide variety of media. The computer in your junk room could be used for so much more it seems.