Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Requiem Apis
With support from the Ontario Arts Council & Toronto Arts Council
An immersive multimedia installation exploring bee colony collapse disorder and the honeycomb structure
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
Mock up (2016)
Ontario Beekeepers Association workshop "Introduction to Beekeeping" at the Kortright Centre for Conservation, Ontario
Folded paper structures & textile explorations at BAiR Summer Residency in Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, Alberta (July 2015)
1:1 honeycombs made using 3D printer (video / sound of printing - coming soon)
Translucent paper cells doubling as video projection screen
Presence and Absence
Virgin beeswax (photos courtesy of Davorin Krakar - COLOSS & EurBee Conferences, Murcia, Spain - Sept 2014)
Abandoned hives