The Beekeeper is a large sculptural work-in-progress, to be exhibited as part of Pollination in September 2015. It is comprised of seven or eight chakras. Here, I am building the throat chakra out of brass. In the center (4th image) is a low RPM / high-torque motor that turns the throat, pineal and heart chakras. The pineal and heart chakras are not shown in these images, but will be featured in later posts.
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open studio: gut chakra, flora and fauna /
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