This mixed media collage is part of a honeybee collection completed in 2023 inspired of my latest hobby – beekeeping!  Did you know that honeybees will “festoon” or create a lacework scaffolding with their bodies between comb or frames by holding onto each other’s legs?  It’s how they span distances that one bee alone cannot reach. Other bees will use their sisters’ body scaffolding as a framework from which they build comb. Included in this piece is the Vincent Van Gogh quote, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”