"Honeycomb"

2010-11

The “Honeycomb” series highlights the fascinating and vulnerable world of the honeybee. The near-destruction of this insect from Colony Collapse Disorder led to a closer look at their importance (they pollinate a third of our food supply) and our role in their ecosystem. Still unknown, many point to human causes for this deadly phenomenon that causes the sudden loss of a colony’s worker bee population, leaving the queen and brood behind to die. Causes that are likely include chemicals used by large-scale beekeepers and the toxic chemicals in our environment. 

My research led me to hive owners in rural and urban Houston where I was invited to photograph and film their hives. My decision in creating these abstract images of honeycombs was to highlight the alien worlds of these creatures. So much about their existence is foreign to us, yet we take for granted these fascinating creatures who pollinate a third of our food supply. 

This series was part of a solo-exhibition, “Hanging by a Thread,” for which I received a 2011 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant.

.Sizes Available 

30 x 30 in., archival inkjet prints, edition of 5 with 2 Artist Proofs 

20 x 20 in., archival inkjet prints, edition of 8 with 1 Artist Proof

Above: Honeycomb #2,  30 in x 30 in archival inkjet print