Description
About this piece: There’s a reason Batman has always stood apart from his caped contemporaries. No radioactive spider bite, no alien birth right, no freak accident with gamma rays. Just inherited wealth, an arsenal of gadgets, and a frankly alarming relationship with his own unresolved trauma.
This piece, spray-painted gold like the gaudy Batmobile of your subconscious, is less about Gotham and more about us. It asks: what happens when you replace superpowers with technology? When your resilience is outsourced to gadgets, and your grief is sublimated into endless productivity?
The piece pokes at both Bruce Wayne’s origin story and our own modern obsessions. Because most of us are only ever one lost password or dead battery away from feeling powerless ourselves.
Hand-Painted “Rescued” 3.5” Floppy Disks (2025). These pieces started life as a set of beat-up 3.5″ floppy disks the artist rescued from the bottom of a plastic tub marked “Important (Maybe).” Each has been thoroughly mistreated, hand-painted, and spiritually upgraded into something far more emotionally complicated.
The artwork features a miniature version of the artist’s full-size oil painting of the same name, lovingly reduced to pocket-size with the help of a magnifying lamp, a suspicious amount of black coffee, and the ghosts of arcade sessions past.
Now, the disk itself — for those of you who dare to destroy their artwork (not recommended) — is formatted in MS-DOS and contains a smattering of retro files: sketches, old concept notes, and one or two things I probably forgot to delete. It’s read-only, spiritually and technically. Do not attempt to boot it unless you enjoy mild disappointment and loud whirring sounds.
Authentication: Signed and individually numbered: verso & inside frame by artist.
Packaging: Collectible box with fancy UV reflective floppy disk icon on the top.
Certificate of Authenticity: Arrives with a signed booklet including signed certificate of authenticity, and potentially some retro digital files (non-infectious… probably).
Edition: Limited to 27. All framed with collectors box and owners manual / signed certificate of authenticity.
Arlo Sinclair (1980 to present)
Programmer Turned Artist
“I’ve always had a soft spot for the forgotten bits of tech — floppy disks, unloved ports, PCMCIA modems. My studio’s a bit of a tech graveyard… with better lighting and the faint smell of solder. My work blends painting (and more lately, sculpture) with the ghosts of our digital past. Much of the storage media I’ve amassed over the years are now useless for files — we all end up degrading — but they carry references, meanings, and the odd emotional glitch. This isn’t just about paying tribute to the past. It’s about taking dead tech and giving it something to say… before it crashes.”
“My artworks are a homage to the functional beauty of digital storage (and the data contained therein)… each with a light-hearted twist.”
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