Colony Collapse
Honey Installation

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Location: Deleon White Gallery, Toronto.
Exhibition: "Bigger, Bigger & More Desperate"
Curators: Colin Kent & Joanna Sheridan
Other Artists: Karen Kraven, Marcia Huyer
Date: Nov. 2008
Photography: Gareth Bate
Status: Prints Available

Artist Statement
While stands the Coliseum,
      Rome shall stand:
When falls the Coliseum, Rome
      shall fall:
And when Rome falls--the World
(Lord Byron)

In perilous times, this installation represents a sense of fragility and interconnectedness. We seem to operate under the strange idea that culture is separate from nature, as opposed to being a manifestation.

The Western honey bee is increasingly under threat from Colony Collapse Disorder where entire bee colonies vanish. When honey drips it naturally forms arches that resemble those of roman architecture. For me the Coliseum is a metaphor for the rise and fall of a civilization.