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JAWS: GONNA NEED - 20” White [Large wall sculpture]

JAWS: GONNA NEED - 20” White [Large wall sculpture]

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Limited edition

Edition of 5

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£2,790.00
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About this work

There was a time when 1.44MB felt like the open ocean — limitless, vast, enough space for all the school projects, BASIC games, and pirated screen savers your heart desired. Until, of course, it wasn’t. This piece dives headfirst into that false sense of technological security — and nature’s fondness for poetic revenge.

JAWS: All Bites Reserved is a tribute to Spielberg’s malfunctioning shark and the accidental brilliance of working within limitations. It’s also a floppy-sized cautionary tale about what happens when you overfish, overreach, or underestimate the appetite of either nature or digital storage.

The label reads “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Floppy Disk” — a nod to that famous line, and every tech moment when “just one more disk” wasn’t quite enough. At the bottom: “All Bites Reserved”, because in this ocean of nostalgia, even the copyright has teeth.

This is modelled after an original floppy rescued from the brink of binhood, this one’s for the kids who grew up with sharks in the ocean, sharks in the code, and an irrational fear of saving anything without first checking how many KB were left.


Edition details

Dimensions:
Unframed: 50cm (W) x 52cm (H)

Medium:
Sculpture, made from acrylic, aluminium, paper and acrylic paints.

Edition size: 
Series of 5 (but no two are the same, much like our childhood traumas) with hand-painting and aging

Authentication: 
Signed, dated and individually numbered by the artist.

Certificate of Authenticity:
Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Release date:
6th March 2024

 

Sculpture info

What you’re looking at is not just a floppy disk. It’s a 1:1 scale tribute to the humble 3.5" data vessel that once carried our hopes, dreams, and Duke Nukem save files.

Each sculpture is handmade using the actual materials found in real floppy disks—plastic, aluminium, and good old-fashioned emotional instability. No 3D printing shortcuts here — just the slow, analog process of sculpting and assembling something that absolutely shouldn’t exist at this size, but does, because I wouldn’t let it die.

The label is created from Somerset printmaking paper, a luxurious surface typically reserved for fine etchings and Victorian secrets. It’s been layered with mixed media —acrylic, archival inks, and a healthy dose of artistic sabotage — then lightly vandalised to simulate years of drawer abuse and forgotten school reports.

Each disk is also painstakingly aged using prop techniques borrowed from the movie industry (and a few secrets I swore to take to the recycling bin). Think faux-oxidisation, precise scuff-mapping, and a time-honoured method I call “accidentally dropping it, then pretending it was intentional.”

 

Packaging

We ship framed and unframed originals in flat bespoke boxes. You'll find the COA inside. 

Display options

These wall sculptures are fitted to hang proudly, but the rear side is no slouch either—fully detailed to replicate the industrial backplate of a real floppy. This means it can also be mounted as a freestanding sculpture, should you wish to treat it like an ancient monolith from the Data Age. (Respect.)

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