Our romance with honey bees goes back millenniums in cultural significance, referenced in poetry, art and religion. The art and poetry created for the installation reflects this multi-facetted relationship with bees.
Participants were invited to create Senryu/Haiku, taking terms from Isobel’s collection of the lexicon of the bee world and relating it to human life or to nature in short poems, and writng them on rice paper strips to hang in the installation.
Take the honey with the milk, drink of it before the rising of the sun, and there shall be something in thy heart that is divine”. -Berliner Zauberpapryrus
Participants were invited to create Senryu/Haiku, taking terms from Isobel’s collection of the lexicon of the bee world and relating it to human life or to nature in short poems, and writng them on rice paper strips to hang in the installation.
Take the honey with the milk, drink of it before the rising of the sun, and there shall be something in thy heart that is divine”. -Berliner Zauberpapryrus
Lexicon of the Bee world
Materials include repurposed shirts, encaustic wax medium, rebar, honeysuckle sticks, twine, paper and ink.
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