Title: Dance of the Bees

material: marble, ash wood cabinet, LED lighting, plywood plinth

size: 140 (h, including plinth) x 34 9w) x 30 (d) cm

This work formed part of my installation, The Architecture of Light, at Down County Museum (2017).

Medieval Cistercian monks, known for their self sufficiency making tools to build their monasteries, inventing ways to harness local water supplies and growing their own food, are likely to have kept bees. The hexagonal cells of honeycombs are echoed in the geometrical patterns used to aid meditation in the glazing of Cistercian buildings. Excavations at Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, have unearthed fragments of unpainted white glass.