Drone / Pollinator

Drone / Pollinator was an attempt to explore our underused senses through using the bumble bee as a starting point.

Drone is a simple sculptural head peice, blocking the sense of sight and focusing and amplifying the low sleepy buzz of bees as they visited a hedge. Photoreceptors in the eyes of bees are sensitive to ultraviolet, blue and green wavelengths, and are noted to have a preference for blue flowers, leading to the choice of colour of the head peice. A heightened sense of space when relying on sounds for navigation, feeling the movement of the breeze in the hairs on by body, trying to gauge the location and paths of the bees.

For Pollinator I moved on all fours, limiting my perspective to the immediate space before me and focusing on the details of the overgrown and abandoned space in which this peice took place. Velcro bands on my wrists and ankles captured small fragments of grass and petals. I became acutely aware of the breeze on my skin, the moisture of plants and earth beneath my hands and feet, and the different stiffnesses and pliability of vegetation at grond level.