Artist makes gorgeous sculptures in collaboration with bees

Winnipeg artistAganetha Dyckis fascinated by the great power of small animals , and over a decade ago she arrange out to make artwork with the help of a bee hive . exercise with bee keeper , she position up a particular apiary where bee could establish their honeycombs on top of bird and other object . The effect are beautiful and otherworldly .

No bees are harmed in the making of these carving , and their homes are n’t damaged . you may learn more about the Dyck ’s process in the odd little video below , about how she and her collaborators create the sculpture . Many of them are built over many seasons . They often take years to hand the point where she ’s satisfied that they ’re pure .

Dyck says she understands why humanity might think they are n’t part of nature , but that it ’s “ crazy ” to say we are n’t part of the environment . Her quislingism with bees are destine to prompt us how connected we are to our surround , andhow much we depend on bee and other pollinating insects for our food supply . Without bee , we ’d starve . Their lives are crumple deeply into our own , just as these honeycombs are bound to the eubstance of these human - created icons .