"Create something in collaboration with another CreativeSprinter Today"
One of the Spa's clients
For the 27th project, I consulted with my friend and fellow artist AS in New England.
She works in a greenhouse and when asked via email what insect first came to mind, she wrote:
"I think of BEES because I have been working in beeswax and I love what bees do and produce.
Also, my coworker and I made a "Bee Spa" for all the fuzzy bumble bees that pass out on the ground
(I think the colder temps make them sluggish?)...and we also have a "Bee Necropolis" where we lovingly put all the bees that have died."
I was intrigued by both ideas - the spa and the necropolis, but decided I might have a better chance at depicting the spa. I asked AS what the Bee Spa looked like:
"...[it] is a selection of lovely cut flowers with pollen offerings plus potted plants in a protected area where the bumbles will not be disturbed as they come 'round (and where we can peek at them and sing/coo to them). It can take over 24 hours until they fly away again."
My paper bee spa is made up of origami flowers and a bumble bee constructed with paper, glue, and paint. I included two old projects completed some time ago: origami sakura on "branches" in an ikebana pot, and nodding blue flowers, cut from colored paper, in a glass bud vase.
"Bumbles Comes Around"
The Bees thank you, AS, and so do I for the great idea!
[July 2, 2016]
I give credit to my friend H, whose love for the helpless bees birthed the spa and the necropolis. S, you have made such a nurturing and beautiful tableau, and your creativity is inspiring! Bumbles is even in the position we found many of the bees in prior to their relocation to safety.
ReplyDeleteThank you also to H!
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