Video: When Insects Apprentice: Honeycomb Sculptures by Aganetha Dyck
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In North America and Europe, as in many other parts of the world, the population of honey bees has declined by 30-50% (by the most conservative estimates) over the past few decades due to colony collapse syndrome - a phenomenon when bee colonies leave the hives, flying away in an unknown direction.
The reasons for this behavior are not yet fully understood, but we have already encountered the consequences: the destruction of bee colonies can cause serious damage to the ecosystem and affect the population of pollinated plants, not to mention the production of honey.
Canadian artist from Manitoba Aganetha Dyck has long been fascinated by research in the field of interspecies communication, in particular, the consequences that can lead to the disappearance of bees from the face of the earth. Together with hardworking insects that are in this unenviable position, the artist creates delicate art objects using porcelain figurines, shoes, sports equipment and other household items for these purposes.
Dyke leaves future works of art in special bees, where the business-minded inhabitants of the colony immediately begin to decorate a new piece of furniture with honeycombs. Within a few weeks, and sometimes months, the object covered with beeswax completely transforms.
Sculptures Dyke, in addition to an interesting aesthetic effect, are designed to convey to the viewer a far from new, but not losing its relevance idea: a person must learn to take into account the fact that we are not the only form of life on planet Earth. Our existence directly depends on the general well-being of the global ecosystem - a complex multi-level structure that will someday fail and collapse if people continue to carelessly pull out whole links from it.
In addition, objects processed by bees are really interesting to look at. “They remind us that all structures are short-lived in comparison to the life of the planet and the processes that occur in nature,” comments Cathi Charles Wherry, curator of the Dyke exhibition, which opens in March.
Bees not only work for the benefit of contemporary art, but also help create unusual advertising campaigns. For example, over eighty thousand Scottish Highland Bees have contributed to the creation of the "3B" bottle for Dewar's Whiskey.
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