March 28 2011

So, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been able to write a new post.  Work seems to get in the way much too often.

Just a quickie today.  This is an idea I had for a new piece, that is if I can figure out how to make it work.  It’s an orchid made out of bees.

Here’s a photo of some real bees placed in the shape of a few orchid petals.  It’s flat and only two petals but I think it’s a pretty good rough approximation of what it will look like.  I got the bees from a beekeeper, Joel, who sells honey at  the local farmers market every weekend.  He unfortunately lost an entire hive, but was able to give me a bunch of bees to experiment with.

And here are some pics of an orchid.

I’m thinking of doing a version where the bees are painted like bees, then another version where the bees are painted like the orchid (Patent pending).  Hopefully it’ll be a trompe l’oeil type of effect, fooling the eye into thinking it’s a flower until getting closer and seeing that it’s comprised of hundreds bees.

That’s the idea anyway.  We’ll see how it turns out.

Cheers,

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