Bees are of vital importance to our eco system, pollinating both much of the food we eat and need to survive and the trees and flowers that provide important habitats for our wildlife. Bees worldwide are in danger and therefore our eco-system and humanity existence is under threat.
The ‘7 DAYS: The Bee Project’ began in late April 2022, working in collaboration with beekeeper and artist (amongst many other things) Carrie Gooch who suggested it would be interesting to place panels near the hives she tends. Three new panels, all of a similar design were created. The design is open to multivalent; a seed bursting forth, the seed Christ at the heart of the universe present in all things, or simply a flower an important provider of pollen for those industrious bees to makes their wonderful honey. Perhaps you see something else?
TEach of the panels were, purposely hung so that they would connect, in some way, with water; One, in a water trough, the second into long grass (with the hope that the dew would soak into it) and the third in a garden pond. The first two panels were placed in apple orchards of the Cyrenians on the outskirts of Edinburgh and the third in my collaborators delightfully verdant, urban garden in which she has two hives. The panels remained there, documented by both Carrie and myself until
See links below to follow their progress through the seasons.
7 DAYS: BEE PROJECT
In 2024, the panels are being placed by the beehives
@The Bield @ Blackruthven.
27th June – 7th August 2024
See: https://www.bieldatblackruthven.org.uk/barn-gallery
Bee Panels 1 & 2
24th April 2022
Follow the documentation of panel 1 & 2 here: http://www.soulmarks.co.uk/7-days/7-days-the-bee-project/bee-panels-1-2-eh27/
Bee Panel 3
19th May 2022
Panel no 3. is in my collaborators garden in which she has two hives, above a pond.
Follow the documentation of panel 3, here : http://www.soulmarks.co.uk/7-days/7-days-the-bee-project/bee-panel-3-eh6/
Carol and Carrie on a tea break.
Carrie filming the Bees.
