Apiary Escapees

Acrylic/Woodcuts

10 x 20

$875.00

The honeybee series, engages several different mediums, including mixed media, photography, printmaking, and my first-ever foray into acrylics. I love the movement of the bees, and honey itself is something that is so textural. The plight of the honeybee is one that is being threatened, so I also wanted to lend a specific message with these pieces that we can do more to help them.
In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. His prediction has come true with Colony Collapse Disorder where bees are disappearing in mass numbers from their hives with no clear explanation. In the fall of 2006, newspapers around the United States began to publicize a unnerving phenomenon. Honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from beehives all around the nation. Dave Hackenburg, a outspoken beekeeper  from PA, and the first to raise a stir about the crisis, reported that bees were simply vanishing from his hives. That fall, beekeepers and commercial beekeeping enterprises around the country reported losses of 30% with some beekeepers reporting losses up to 90% of all of their colonies.  Push for policy change on the use of bee - killing pesticides. Let congress know what you think. Change has to happen from the top-down as well as from the bottom-up.