Posted by Sherrie Thai of Shaire Productions.
This piece was inspired by the King Tut Art Exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. I've always been fascinated by the incorporation of the dung beetle into the Egyptian mythology as a Scarab, a creature associated with the god Khepri, who pushed the sun through the Egyptian underworld. In my version, I replaced suns with eyeballs, as eyes are the windows to the soul--our own suns. The beetles are created in a bio-mechanical style and the minimal colors elude to the Ancient Egyptian influence.
