April called me on Friday and gave me the bad news. The bees aren't producing. Gwartzman's has been out of beeswax for a couple weeks. Is this happening everywhere? BEEES! come back! So I bought a big block of microcrystalline and that's what we used. And it was fine. Who needs nature anyway - apparently, not me.
Sunday we had: Zev, Irina, Louie, and Maribeth. Zev did some amazingly gross and drippy work with mouths cut out and wax building up everywhere- I was into it, Zev, even if you refused to do the pretty little exercises I was trying to teach you. Who am I to hold you back? Maribeth brought some really cool vintage photos of her mom taken in a photo booth in the 30s (nice poses, mom), Irina's work was like crazy dolls in an enchanted childhood nightmare forest, and Louie did a beautiful photo transfer over pastels.
Speaking of photo transfers, I'll soon put up the work the kids at Art Heart have been doing. Those guys are genius with the wax, and they're all of 8 years old. The work will be up during the Contact Photography Festival, so they should all be famous soon.
the dying and disappearing of honey bees is actually an agricultural devastation that effects many different industries and eventually, possibly our culture.
ReplyDeleteIf there are alternatives I would definitely practice with those since you never know what is going become extinct when it comes to nature and the force handing of man made production lines.