Скачать или смотреть Beehive Bouquet Automata By Ave Rose

Beehive Bouquet
Its time was up and it fell to the dirt. With its last breath, the spirit of the coyote escaped from its gold toothed mouth in a sonic boom of an energy. And from its dark hollow throat a plant of woody pods and black sage blossoms grew. The pods revealed tiny seeds of sparkling gems and glossy glass bulbs. The blossoms bloomed petals caressing brass bits. Soon there were bees feeding on these flowers something more of an elixir than a nectar. The honey bees began to shimmer with golden bodies. The bumble bees started twinkling with opals and sapphires. The blood stained soil once hard and cold, became a warm cushion of red velvet where the skull of the creature still stood strong. The bees gathered together building intricate bronze structures with gilded nest that protected living jewels. Then the light of the moon and the sun harmonized into one entity of white glowing crystals, forever illuminating this sacred cycle.

There is an antique brass key on this piece that plays the tune Clair De Lune when turned.
Clair De Lune was inspired by the french poem of the same name. This tune and poem greatly inspired this piece. Here is an English translation:
Your soul is a delicate landscape
Where roam charming masks
Playing the lute and dancing
seeming almost sad under their whimsical disguises.
While singing in a minor key
Of victorious love and easy life.
They don't seem to believe in their happiness,
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the sad and beautiful moonlight,
Which makes the birds in the trees dream,
And sob with ecstasy the water streams.

Beehive Bouquet was part of my Whimsical Windows collection of automata created for the La Luz De Jesus Gallery June 1-30, 2018.

Materials: black sage, protea flower and leaves, calistamos seed pods, wasp nests, coyote skull with 23k gold gilded fangs, gold gilded naturally deceased bumble bee & honey bees, apophyllite druzy crystal (Deccan Traps, Maharashtra, India), Herkimer diamonds, opal, swiss blue topaz, gold topaz, pale lemon peridot, citrine, amethyst,emeralds, garnet, pink garnet, rhodelite, pink sapphire, white sapphire, blue sapphire, fire sapphire, and onyx. There is a secret compartment containing secret treasures. Music box plays Clair De Lune.