White Beehive Collage

Description

Recycled Behives

600mm diameter

Art to me can be found in ‘unexpected places’. I have deliberately chosen to use discarded wood as a medium and to celebrate their beauty.

The challenge to a viewer comes from seeing beauty within these ordinary pieces of discarded materials. I am asking the viewer to forget the traditional constructs of art, to take the time to see a value in looking at their world in a different way. Possibly this a big ask, but as Leonard Cohen writes in his lyrics to his song ‘Anthem’ (1992)