PC Yard Art

I had an old PC that was giving up the ghost. It was a 486 if you can believe it. So I decided to make some yard art out of it. I went to ace hardware and bought four different kinds of plants. A fern, a succulent, a vine and a flowering plant.

I then disassembled my computer case and measured the dimensions of the casing. I dug a hole in my backyard roughly larger then the size of the computer case. The roots of the nearby tree were obstructing my original location and I had to dig another hole nearby.

I placed the PC case in the hole, and arranged the pieces in the most artful way possible, running wires into the dirt, making sure the interesting looking parts were projecting up out of the ground. I covered most of the casing with earth. I also buried the mouse and keyboard, with wires connecting them to the main casing.

I then planted my four plants in various pockets of earth in and around the computer case.

I watered and observed the plants over the course of a lazy summer. After several weeks it could be noted that the vine and the succulent were doing poorly, while the fern and the flowering plant were flourishing. Regretfully I only took pictures of the finished project.

When I moved out of my mother’s house my plant sculpture quickly disappeared.