Here’s a little video I made this week, using techniques learned in our digital art lessons before Christmas. Although the video is ‘light’ and hopefully fun, the subject matter is a very serious one.
My little film is about the decline of the flower-rich meadows, which we have lost 97% of since the 1930s. I read about this when researching for my Bee Goddess project and was shocked at this harsh statistic. (From http://www.bumbleebeeconsertation.org)
I also made some artwork about this same thing this week. I’m not sure if it’s finished as it is or not? I will return to it in a few days and see how I feel. I think it needs something dark near the bottom of the pages to balance out the colours perhaps?
This work is telling the same story – the decline of the bee population, with a recumbent goddess figure to represent the landscape. It is in the form of a concertina book and when it stands upright it can tell a story as a sequence, like a storyboard from left to right. Alternatively, I can glue it together end to end, so it stands upright like a hexagon – to reference the cells in a honeycomb? I like this idea. I also used a tiny bit of beeswax to colour the bee, a nice link between medium and subject.
Perhaps to complete the piece I will add flowers or the suggestion of foliage and flowers in the foreground? I had intended to use flowers and the language of flowers in this project and haven’t done it so far. Maybe now is the time to make a start with that idea?
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