Exhibitions – The Bees

THE BEES – THANK YOU
To Bee or not to Bee? This is the question
The bees help keep our world buoyant. Without them working for
us, we’d have a deflated world, expensive food and big problems.
There is a paper bee over the hive that one is supposed to hit in
times of celebration. This demonstrates that by hitting and abusing
the bees and destroying them, we are most likely destroying
ourselves in the process.
The brooms are paced in a large plastic hive comb-coloured bin.
The bees collect and in a way, sweep up the pollen which ultimately
keeps us all fed and alive. So thank you The Bees. Good job you are
here performing such a wonderful yet incognito task for mankind.
There are black & yellow speed humps showing we should slow
down and think what we are doing to the bees – and ourselves.
There is a small black and yellow torch pointing at the hive showing
our attention should be on them and not us, as if not for them,
there’d be no us.
There is a candle burning on a black torch symbolic that we are
running out of time.
There is a children’s Bee Mac (with fake red roses where face and
feet and hands would be) and black & yellow Bee Wellington boots
showing that if we do not tread carefully and take care our children
will have little food and could be gone.

The Bee hive moneybox is standing on an empty honey jar symbolic
of the fact that life without the bees will not be sweet at all.
There is a large global map on floor held down by black & yellow
corner hazards showing this is everyone’s problem and we need
take care of our world and treat it with respect.
There is a builder’s hat with a bee under it on top of a fluorescent
vest as the bees are the world’s workers. The vest is to say we
should take note of the bees.
There is a flower pot with a wooden cross on it with mini globes for
flower heads in it (the bees keep our world ticking over and healthy
through pollination) placed within a wreath (for the dead) with no
foliage but rather has barbed wire round it: symbolic of the fact
that if we have no foliage (a healthy planet) we’ll have much
suffering and a questionable future without the bees.
A security CTCV camera high up on back wall showing someone is
recording and watching us (God).
Two tape measures on floor: one fully extended other only a few
inches and is placed on top of small coffin and this on top of a doll’s
bed with sleeping mask. The fully extended one has a bowl of fruit
on it and inflated world ball whilst other has a small animals that
we eat. Symbolic we once started off long ago and everything was
abundant with much fruit. Now there is nothing as shown in the
Lidl shopping trolley that only has one strawberry in it and empty
pasta bag and box Sugar Puffs and deflated world. Handle has
warning tape on it.