Artist From Their Art

More originality from the beings with the creatively creative gene.

Ghost in the Machine: Jimi Hendrix out of cassette.
(cassette is real, no paint, no photoshop) 

Beethoven made from bits of second-hand Beethoven sheet music!

The Dude from VHS tape

Monet in his own brushstrokes...A page from a used book showing a painting by Monet (woman with umbrella) cut up and rearranged to form a portrait of Monet.

Detail of a portrait of William Shakespeare made out of text from his sonnets

A bit about the artist from her website iri5...

My name is Erika Iris Simmons. I am a self-taught artist who works with non-traditional media. Most of my materials have been discarded or donated at some point.

I try to express an idea, through the arrangement of very common things, with the hope that some message is conveyed without words. I love the nostalgia of the archaic and I hope that not everything which has outlived its use goes to waste.

To view more of Erika's work, click here.