Flower Series Archive
Explore Gabriel Dishaw’s Flower Series, where technology meets nature in a celebration of renewal and sustainability. Each sculpture is meticulously handcrafted from e-waste and recycled materials, transforming discarded components into vibrant floral forms. Through this series, Dishaw captures the delicate balance between the natural world and modern innovation — illustrating how beauty can emerge from what we leave behind.
Explore the inspiration and process behind this piece.
Gabriel Dishaw's earliest sculptures were floral forms built from discarded technology, and Digital Daisies returns to that origin, completing in April 2017 a sculpture that revisits the series where the practice began. Built from floppy disc parts, hard drives, capacitors, vacuum tubes, gears, and typewriter parts, this piece draws from the full depth of the e-waste vocabulary — analog and digital, mechanical and electronic, the old and the obsolete assembled into something that reads unmistakably as organic.
The flower series is the one corner of the shop with no pop culture, no brand references— just the question of what happens when the language of technology is used to speak about nature.
Materials: Floppy disc parts; hard drives; capacitors; vacuum tubes; gears; typewriter parts; upcycled electronic materials.
Wearable: No — display sculpture.
Dimensions: 19.75"H × 7.75"W × 7.75"D
Edition: Limited Edition 1 of 1 — signed with certificate of authenticity
Digital Daisies was created using upcycled materials such as: floppy disc parts, hard drives, capacitors, vacuum tubes, gears, typewriter parts, and other electronic materials.
Dimensions: 19.75 inches tall, 7.75 inches wide, and 7.75 inches deep.
Date Completed: 4/2/2017
Daisies of Tomorrow
This piece is one of my favorites. It was the first flower sculpture that I did. I later did a whole series of these daises, and this is the piece that started it all.
Date Completed: 7-22-2012
Daisies and Butterfly
Created very early on. This piece is a continuation of a series of sculptures modeled after a flower. I utilized components from hard drives, metal tubing and copper sheet. I created the base out of oak with help from Andy Bauman.
Date Completed: 8-27-2011
3 Flower Engine
Is part of a series of Flower Sculptures that I explored. My favorite part of this piece is the attached motor. It works as the root system and gives the bird a place to rest.
Dates Completed: 6-19-2009
