hive consciousness V
2010
beeswax and honeybee hive comb
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- carbonbasedprimitive
- My work is contemplative and suggests ritual. It explores our place in the natural world, our misguided attempts to separate from and dominate "the environment", and our relationship with the veriditas, or spiritual intelligence of nature. The work also comments on our naive embrace of technologies whose implications we do not fully understand.
lost
(2008) corn fibre, file cabinet drawer. Since ancient times, bees have been seen as supernatural messengers, bridging the natural and under-worlds, symbols of spirit, secret wisdom and rebirth. In recent years Colony Collapse Disorder, the phenomenon of "disappearing" bees, has devastated apiaries and native pollinators worldwide with potentially catastophic results for food security. Linked hypothetically to new technologies and industrial-style agricultural practices, CCD progressively erodes group memory and the capapcity of the superorganism to self-communicate. and alzheimer-ed bees wander off, never to return.
urban gleaning i and ii (installation)
(2007) grass fibre
hive consciousness III
(2007-10) plant fibre
hive consciousness I
(2007) waspnest paper and hive comb. As an urban beekeeper, concepts such as godhead, belly-brain, and Jung's collective unconscious are considered in my art practice.
hive consciousness I
(2007) waspnest paper and hivecomb (detail)
short hills (installation)
(2007) wire mesh. A number of suspensions have been handsewn using wire and wire mesh.
the prometheus unbound project
(2005-6) plant fibre. A dense clustering of upraised forearms with singed fingertips. Inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book subtitled A Modern Prometheus, and by the original myth of Prometheus who was severely punished for stealing fire from the gods and gifting this new technology to mankind.
forage (detail)
(2004) grass fibre. Eventually suspensions were constructed exclusively from plant fibre using paper I hand-made from garden refuse or wildcrafted materials.
foliate
(2001) leaf fibre and pulped recycled paper. Plant fibre was introduced into the paper pulp of later suspensions such as this one.
regenerate I
(2000) pulped recycled paper. Perhaps it began when wasps made a nest in a bag of wool I'd hung to air outside the back door. The bag buzzed and vibrated each time I walked past....A reoccurring vehicle for artistic exploration is a waspnest-like suspension, initially made using paper pulp.
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