Description
“The Master’s dead but don’t you go
Your Mistress will be good to you”
A snippet of rhyme perhaps used for ‘Telling the bees’
Telling the bees is a traditional European folklore custom in which bees would be told of important events happening in the lives of their keeper; such as marriages, births or deaths. If the bees were not told or were not put into mourning after a death, it was believed that they would leave their hive or would stop producing honey
The first of two pieces inspired by the ancient custom of ‘telling the bees’
The original papercut piece appeared in a 2020 exhibition called Hinterland: an exploration of liminal space
Nature, Folklore, dreamworlds, myth, folk song, colour, form, patterns and forces in nature are all key inspirations for pieces in this exhibition collection.
Hinterland is an exploration of in-between spaces such as borders, boundaries, shorelines and other such places in nature. The work also explores more abstract ideas of hinterlands, such as areas lying beyond what is visible or known, the blurred lines between folklore, myth and reality, life and death or dream and consciousness
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