360 Tour

In the Paul Creative Arts Center at the University of New Hampshire, I worked with classmates to do a digital 360 tour of the sculpture workshop class's "Buzzing Metropolis," with the description:

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"Bees are the unsung heroes of daily human life. They are integral to the survival of our ecosystems and are one of the reasons we have food to eat. Human food relies on pollination, with bees being the main pollinators. From fruits and vegetables, to seeds, and livestock feed, the effects of their work touches every part of our food system. Without bees, our agricultural landscapes and ultimately the survival of humans would not be sustainable. 

Despite bees' critical role, human activity has systematically harmed be populations through habitat destruction, pesticide use, climate change, and urbanization. Bees are struggling to survive, yet without them, human life would no longer be possible.

This buzzing metropolis imagines a world where the city itself is overtaken by bees- where human civilization faces the consequences of ignoring creatures that sustain it. In this city, bees are not simply a background player, they are the city, turning our urban spaces into thriving hives.

Bees and human cities are deeply connected on a social level. The structure of the beehive mirrors the organization of human societies, with roles, division of labor, and a shared purpose of driving the collective forward. In a hive, every bee has a specific function: worker bees collect nectar, drones fertilize queens, and the queen ensures the hive's reproduction. Each bee plays a crucial role in maintaining order and productivity, much like the different roles humans play in a city's infrastructure. 

Weaving together art and science, Buzzing Metropolis inspires a deeper understanding of the need to protect the creatures that sustain us. The art explores how bees are not just essential to the survival of our food systems, but to the very way we organize and live in the world. As bees reclaim the city, we must ask ourselves: can we rebuild a world where both humanity and bees can coexist?" (Brice, Cote, Donnelly, Dun, Elgner, Frost, Kempskie, Klein, Lavelle, Morrison, Murray, Ouellet, Tuttle, Wanek-Petriccione)

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