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,