The Honeybee Blueprint Project

Documenting Light, Time and Labor

Abstract

This project is a collaboration with living honeybees resulting in large works on paper. Each artwork is a life size unique photogram made in the sun (not from a digital negative). These drawings were made using organic components, salt, earth, plastic and the presence of living honeybees and documented via the cyanotype process. The resulting “blueprint” is a record of light, time and labor; in an atmosphere of vast uncertainty. In the fleeting moments that pass during exposure, bees move and vibrate. Their presence is recorded over long exposures. Honeybees are in no way harmed by this project.

This project is greatly informed by professional beekeepers. The Honeybee Blueprint Project explores invisible labor and a changing planet.