treasure of the bee

How will we feed the growing population? That’s one of the main questions of our time. Do we choose the scale of industrial agriculture with genetically modified crops or just the small-scale organic farming? One of the hardest workers in agriculture is often forgotten in this debate: the bee.
The bee is responsible for about one third of our food. Without pollination there would be a lot less fruit and vegetables as apples, pears, berries, peaches or aspergus. But the situation of the bee is dramatic. Chemical substances that are used in industrial agriculture have weakened her. By monoculture wild bees lose their place to nest.

This project shows what we miss when the bee would no longer be there. Without her, our food would be scarce, less colorful and less flavorful.
Seven still lifes from the Golden Age are chosen, a period with prosperity and abundance. A balanced composition, color, surface distribution and material expression characterize them.
In the re-interpretation of them elements where the bee is responsible for, were removed- with the result of original carefully arranged compositions getting out of balance. This could be seen symbolically for our ecosystem getting out of balance without the bee. It’s not the accessories that the emptiness and impermanence show, but the remained holes in the composition.