Swarm Bee with Gold Leaf

These collectible laser engraved bees are on an activist mission.

Each bee is 12” x 16” on White Birch and bee been out in the world as a part of a traveling installation called The Swarm. The artist installs this collective piece at a growing list of locations - Rockefeller Center, the German Embassy in DC, Auburn University Museum in Alabama, Burning Man in Nevada, the Woodstock Concert site in Upstate NY, and a tattoo shop in NC to name a few. Bees are continuously added to the Swarm and reworked in the studio and then brought out again into the world. These bees are often displayed out in nature and therefore have a time-worn, well traveled feel. Distressed, rustic, primitive are words the artist uses to describe them.

*Important - The bees displayed are examples of the range of color variation. These bees are displayed out in the elements multiple times in their life. They are all beautiful (like time-worn activists) in the way their individual journey has informed their surface. But no two are exactly alike. (If you are lucky, you may even receive one that the artist repainted the bee back in because it faded from sun and rain exposure.)