The bees have the skills of an architect
August 16, 2021 2:24 PM Subscribe
Aganetha Dyck reveals how she works with bees to create strange and wonderful art (CBC) "It's their ability to construct up, down, in three dimensions that interested me. They create the most beautiful environment that I've ever seen. I mean, it's just absolutely gorgeous. You have to be an artist to be able to do that."
"We're so meshed in what we do, the bees and I. They work by instinct and I work intuitively. And I'm trying to figure out whether there's a difference."
"I feel close to them when I'm working in the hive because of the warmth they emit and the sound. They seem to be so — such a caring community," says Dyck, emotion in her voice. "I'm really concerned for them. 95 per cent of wild honeybees have disappeared. When you're so close to a creature that's so important to the world and you know how quickly they could disappear, and what that would do to humanity, that's a relationship that's pretty precious."
Artist Aganetha Dyck has spent the last 22 years collaborating with honeybees to produce some really sweet art.
"We're so meshed in what we do, the bees and I. They work by instinct and I work intuitively. And I'm trying to figure out whether there's a difference."
"I feel close to them when I'm working in the hive because of the warmth they emit and the sound. They seem to be so — such a caring community," says Dyck, emotion in her voice. "I'm really concerned for them. 95 per cent of wild honeybees have disappeared. When you're so close to a creature that's so important to the world and you know how quickly they could disappear, and what that would do to humanity, that's a relationship that's pretty precious."
Artist Aganetha Dyck has spent the last 22 years collaborating with honeybees to produce some really sweet art.
This reminded me of some of the art that Jennifer Berry has made using beehives as a type of 3d fabrication tool.
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But doth suffer a bee-change
Into something rich and strange.
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