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One day I went to buy some lip balm, and I found out about Burt’s Bees which donates part of its profit to researching CCD, my roommate brought it up in our conversation, and I noticed a small hive of bees outside my apartment. I read up on this phenomenon of CCD, and found out that honey bees were not natives to North America, but that they were brought over from Europe a few hundred years ago. Now, researchers are trying to find ways in which to adapt actual native pollinators like the carpenter bee, to our commercial agriculture in case the honey bees should die off. But it is still the same story; we altered nature to suit our purposes, and now it appears that nature is retaliating and taking back what should never have been taken.
So, I decided to combine these two elements, of the coexistence that I wish could happen and the ominous future if it does not. I made a robot (man-made) bee which is being overtaken and reclaimed by plants bursting from inside it. And the question remains, “Is there still hope?”

(Her eyes were roller printed with mesh so the left eye shows the negative impression and the right eye shows the positive....get it...right side of the train? The wings are acid etched copper which were then silver plated and sanded to reveal the copper underneath)

Description
One day I went to buy some lip balm, and I found out about Burt’s Bees which donates part of its profit to researching CCD, my roommate brought it up in our conversation, and I noticed a small hive of bees outside my apartment. I read up on this phenomenon of CCD, and found out that honey bees were not natives to North America, but that they were brought over from Europe a few hundred years ago. Now, researchers are trying to find ways in which to adapt actual native pollinators like the carpenter bee, to our commercial agriculture in case the honey bees should die off. But it is still the same story; we altered nature to suit our purposes, and now it appears that nature is retaliating and taking back what should never have been taken.
So, I decided to combine these two elements, of the coexistence that I wish could happen and the ominous future if it does not. I made a robot (man-made) bee which is being overtaken and reclaimed by plants bursting from inside it. And the question remains, “Is there still hope?”

(Her eyes were roller printed with mesh so the left eye shows the negative impression and the right eye shows the positive....get it...right side of the train? The wings are acid etched copper which were then silver plated and sanded to reveal the copper underneath)