Turning Dad's Old Cassettes Into Art for the Whisper Gallery I: Cassette Tape Dimensionals

Firstly, I am so thankful to be a part of the Whisper Gallery I. This has been an incredible project to inspire and cultivate new art in a unique way. Thanks to Hive account@mrblinddraw for the invitation as well as all of the artists thus far whom have contributed: Hive account@upheaver
Hive account@paolobeneforti Hive account@aksinya Hive account@voronenka Hive account@natureofbeing Hive account@artistchristian Hive account@juliakponsford Hive account@erb Hive account@adrianv Hive account@scuzzy Hive account@coloringiship Hive account@rachelsvparry @Yusaymon.

Inspiration from Hive account@yusaymon

I have been contemplating ways to use music mediums to create art. After seeing Hive account@yusaymon's piece, it struck me to use something transparent. His painting has something that looks almost backlit and transparent to it. The browns and blues are also striking to me. I decided to create a piece using structural and color ideas from Hive account@yusaymon's piece. I also used the eye of my cat in the middle of the photo as an interpretive transition from the portrait and eye of the woman.

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Cassette Tape Dimensionsals

I give you "Cassette Tape Dimensionals, 2018"

The Making Of

Step by step, here's a visual guide to how I created this piece of art.

First, I searched for frames. This one came from Blick, and turns out to be ideal for the piece.

I took an old tape from my family (one they didn't want to keep anymore).

I removed the back of the frame as well as the placeholder art.

This cassette happens to be a disco cassette from my parents. For those of you who would like to take a listen to what was on this cassette, check out the video below!

It is a bit odd cutting up something that you know has a piece of art, culture, history, and meaning behind it. But this process is going to be fun nonetheless because I am creating something more modern. I like to think of it as an homage to cassettes.

I created the parallel lines along this matte and started taping them to the back of it.

Once I got them about half way diagonally across the piece, the hard part begins.

I didn't want to just layer the casette strips on eachother, I took the weaving approach. The tapes are very fragile and get little marks in them easily from being bent just from the slightest touch. This process was tedious.