Honey Prism
In this Library Chat, artist and Abigail R. Cohen Fellow Kate Daudy speaks with Megan Hawley Ruppel, a graduate student in Columbia’s Master’s program in History and Literature at Reid Hall, about the project she is working at the Institute. Kate explains why she understands honey as a symbol of nature’s beauty and complexity. She and Megan discuss how recognizing the sublime in everyday life is an essential part of Kate’s artistic process. Together, they explore the story behind Kate’s project, her creative journey, and the unexpected spark that ignited her deep fascination with honey.
Kate Daudy is a British conceptual artist internationally recognised for her public interventions and large-scale outdoor sculpture., who works across a wide variety of media.
Inventive, complex, and celebratory, Daudy’s projects involve collaborations with people in all fields: science, digital technology, mathematics, poetry, music, a perfume house, the ancient world, and farming. This has led to museum exhibitions, citywide takeovers in Palermo, Spain, Manchester, London and New York City. Her works, a lot of them ephemeral, are juxtaposed in locations ranging from Saint Paul’s Cathedral and the Glastonbury Music Festival bus stops and writings on the back of a sheep.
