I got some broken phone parts from the local Fix It shop down the road. As I looked at the sad pile of electronics, never again to be electrified, one screen stood out to me.
It was closer to a whole screen when I began, but it was darker than I wanted due to the LCD material on the back. A material which, might I add is incredibly difficult to remove. In trying to remove the material glued to the back of the glass, I damaged the broken screen more than when I originally got it. But in so doing I had this idea for a picture. If you have ever gotten really close to a screen or monitor you may have noticed that each pixel is made up of a red green and blue pixel. With the higher resolution screens of today they may not look like an open carton of Neapolitan ice cream, but if you had an old CRT TV that you got really close to, you know what I’m talking about. And thinking about that array of red, green and blue, I thought if you break a bottle whatever is inside comes leaking out, so if you break a screen, then all the red, green, and blue should leak out the bottom.
I set to work suspending the screen in the air and then proceeded to pour paint on the back and photograph it as is dripped off the bottom. This is one of the shots that I think was more successful at showing what I was after. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.