Throughout history a community of honeybees has often been employed as a model of human society. This occurs in the works of Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Shakespeare, and Marx and Tolstoy.
This body of work is a nod to this tradition.
It imagines the flight of the foraging honeybee on its quest for nutrition, however a flaw of perception seems to occur.
The work aims to point directly to the impact of the increasing climate crisis on the natural habitat and metaphorically to a culture of denial.
It surveys a landscape of loss and confusion.
Judith Lewis Herman, an American psychiatrist points out that:
“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish it from consciousness. Certain violations of the social impact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.”
Studies on trauma suggest that we create the reality that we require in order to justify and continue destructive and exploitative behaviours.
This would suggest that we live in a world of make-believe so as to rationalise our behaviours and during the course of this it seems we might have forgotten what is real and what is not.