Detail of The Beekeeper, 2013 - 2015
For my upcoming show Pollination (September 2015), I am working on a large sculpture called "The Beekeeper." Energy nodes (aka chakras) of the human body are represented therein. This image shows a detail of The Beekeeper's gut chakra, comprised of hybrid plant and insect electronics on the traditional green circuit board, or ground plane. I experience the gut chakra as distinct from the solar plexus, an opinion that I mention because most people consider them one and the same. I usually see the gut chakra as indigo blue; but here, yellow light from The Beekeeper's bright solar plexus causes the blue to show up green. More on that later. Kelly Heaton, 2013 - 2015