Analog dreams — Echoes of the past — Reassembled for today

Low Frequency Relics features illuminated dioramas created from refurbished vintage CRT televisions, re-engineered into functional art pieces that celebrate analog nostalgia and handcrafted reuse. Each TV becomes a glowing display environment designed to frame personalized figurines selected by the buyer.

Figurines are sold separately. Images shown are for inspiration and visioning purposes only; final themes and characters are customized for each piece.

Close up of a retro TV art piece sitting in a garden setting with with Beatles figurines from the Yellow Submarine inside it.

Mike David creates illuminated television dioramas from vintage electronic relics, transforming obsolete CRT televisions into functional art that frames personalized, iconic figurines within glowing sculptural environments. Each piece begins with a discarded TV set that is carefully refurbished and re-engineered as a lighted display—giving forgotten technology a new utilitarian life.

Working at the intersection of nostalgia, pop culture, and mid-century design, David populates these reimagined screens with figurines and statuettes drawn from a wide range of genres, including classic cartoons, animation, music, and cultural icons. The result is a series of curated “broadcasts” frozen in time—illuminated artifacts found between the channels.

Originally a hobbyist driven by curiosity and a love of analog technology, David approaches each piece with a maker’s sensibility, honoring the original object while elevating it into something both playful and refined. Clients are invited into the process, selecting themes and characters that personalize each work and deepen its nostalgic resonance.

Through Low Frequency Relics, David explores how obsolete electronics can be reimagined not as waste, but as vessels for memory, whimsy, and renewed purpose—objects once designed to transmit culture now reborn as culture themselves.

“In a world that throws things away faster than we know how to live with them, I take objects that once had a life and rebuild them for today — because nostalgia lives in all of us, and sometimes the most striking, meaningful kind of beauty shows up in act of remembering the things we thought no longer mattered.” — Mike David