Ross Bollerup

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Bees Statement

I kept honey bees for ten years and so became a participant in their industrious, productive existence. The beauty of a honey bee hive swarming with bees, each bee completely focused on its own responsibilities and oblivious to my outside observations has remained with me for many years. This work is an appreciation of them and of their 790 or so relatives that reside in the wilds throughout Canada

The approach that I took to make these images has evolved from early experiments with stencil making. I am motivated to find the best way to interpret each subject and the various ideas and feelings that surround it. The honey bee and its activities has led me to develop a more complex technique to compose and recompose my two dimensional pictures.

The wall piece “Flight of a Bee” is a group of images that are derived from an original matrix composition. It is a random arrangement and can be mounted arbitrarily depending on the wall space. The original matrix is a composition of a group of individual stencils. The stencils that comprise this matrix are employed in various ways in all the work of the Bee Project.