The artist Jason mercier is another creative person in using Apple devices, and perhaps the only one to literally tear a Mac to pieces for his work. Mercier has made a name for himself around San Francisco Bay, by creating mosaics with trash, in keeping with their celebrities. So when his cousin commissioned him to do a portrait of the late Apple founder, Mercier knew he had to build it with the products and components that Jobs had created.
The use of glue gun, Mercier placed about 20 pounds of computing debris to make it, to form the reflective image of Jobs.
I really didn't know much about him, says Mercier of Jobs. I saw some of the movies about him and they gave the perfect complement. It was then that I really became interested in him.
There are a growing number of portraits in the world inspired by the works that emerged after his death in 2011. There have been countless tattoos I have seen, bronze statues, an Oscar nominated movie, and an opera.
You could say that Mercier's work is like art with macaroni on steroids. In fact, his first portraits were made with noodles and legumes, but quickly moved to the trash and other found objects. He has several portraits made of colored candiesand licorice y Rubber pads.
For portrait Jobs, had to look up a lot of the material of the friends regarding computers, and a thrift shopping They have lots of old keyboards and various internals.
He has used apple hard drives, mice or with a iPod, and they are just some of the elements glued or nailed to the portrait of Jobs. The neck sweater contains a large number of non-Apple parts such as the vintage folding phonesMaybe a shout out to Jobs with the technology he was trying to do better, but also because the material was in the black color Mercier needed.
A 3D puzzle
Lots of broken circuit boards, and other electronics fragments added color, crafts, and the face shape. The jaw line was formed from broken pieces of iPhones. The last piece measures 0,9144 meters by 1,2192 meters.
I have the image that I want to represent, and then I treat it like a 3D puzzle, Mercier said. I'll fix it by color, size and shape, and play with things to see what works best.
Mercier is a prolific self-taught artist, who has created "hundreds" of portraits with trash in the last 15 years. He makes a living selling his work, and making illustrations.
For his celebrity collaborations, Phyllis Diller sent him in distress tubes of anti-itch cream. Heidi fleiss sent him a box full of bird toys in the mail. Even the comedian A, he inherited his dental appliances. Any of all the worldly artifacts he received, they turned into colorful art.
Prefer 'Celebrity Trash'
However Jobs is likely to be your titan in your artistic works, he told the tech news website of 'Recode'in 2014. He finds an increased interest in pop culture figures, such as "Real Housewives" than those of technology.
He told Recode that while he is more of a visual artist, the message behind the Jobs portrait is "Make think twice".
I don't even have an iPod, he said. But there are people where that is the most important thing in the world. It's just a piece of white plastic to me, an expensive piece of white plastic. Hopefully my comments don't help.
Mercer currently has an exhibit called 'Celebrity Trash' that will be until May 28 at '111 Minna Gallery' in San Francisco. Check out the video below to see how it works. I hope you liked the article.