resistors

open studio: sculptural resistor series /  by kelly heaton

Study for a sculptural resistor series, 2016.  Colored pencil on paper.  Kelly Heaton

I continue to work on studies for outdoor sculpture incorporating analog electronics into landscape architecture, public space, and nature.  I like the form and color of electronic components, especially rendered with biological character.  Situated on a grassy ground plane, green like a circuit board, these larger-than-life circuits are an exciting synthesis of natural and manmade systems.

open studio: snow birds at my feeder /  by kelly heaton

Snow Birds at My Feeder, 2016. Digital photocollage (sketch). Kelly Heaton

We got three feet of snow this weekend.  After two days of slogging and shoveling, I am finally able to appreciate the beauty.  Birds are going crazy at my feeder.  It's beautiful to watch their colorful flittering and flight against the snowy background.

open studio: wish you were here /  by kelly heaton

Wish You Were Here, 2016.  Digital photo collage.  Kelly Heaton

Vintage resistors hamming it up on a trashy beach.  The ocean is green due to toxic algal bloom, but never mind.  Electricity doesn't like water, anyway.

open studio: gut chakra, flora and fauna /  by kelly heaton

Detail of The Beekeeper, 2013 - 2015

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