Admission to the 2014 Whitney Biennial is not worth $20 IF BUT to see Leviathan by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab.
inspiration: leviathan /
open studio: sunlight /
In honor of daylight savings, return of the sun.
Kelly Heaton, sun studies in watercolor and ink, 2009 - 2012
inspiration: mcqueen bee /
Sarah Burton's 2012 collection for Alexander McQueen
open studio: casting comb /
Casting resin hands and honeycomb for a work in progress. Kelly Heaton, March 2014
spirit world: ash wednesday /
Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central and considered very holy. Illustration by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1886)
wild card: mardi gras indians /
Top row, left to right: Big Chief Alfred Doccette (photo K. Edwards); Allison Tootie Montana; Chief Cheyenne (photo A. Henriquez)
Bottom row, left to right: photo from house of dance and feathers; Big Chief Victor Harris sewing his costume; Chief Iron Horse & the Black Seminoles
inspiration: when hay freezes over /
I forgot to turn off water to the horse trough. Wet hay froze on the ground nearby - beautiful.
