Aganetha Dyck Works With Bees To Make Art

Canadian Born Aganetha Dyck has shown her work extensively in over 30 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions across Canada and internationally since 1975. Perhaps best known for her collaborative work with live honeybees, Aganetha’s most recent practise has concentrated on placing ordinary household objects in beehives, allowing the bees to become her artistic partners by adding wax sculptures to the objects. The image to your right is part of a collaboration between Canadian artist Richard Dyck and Agnetha involving a flatbed scanner inside a beehive. Apparently the bees paint as they move relative to the scan head over the scanner bed, their images compressing and smearing anfractuously. Incidentally, sunlight is controlled with the lid of the beehive. LINK