It seems like I have been climbing trees for a week, oh right I have been. My hexagon clusters are in the trees. I am very happy with how the installation looks.
The exhibition "We Are All Linked" continues on the Meewasin Valley Trail, Saskatoon until March 22.
We Are All Linked
Public Art by Monique Martin
Public Art by Monique Martin
This installation is made up of interlinked hexagons covered in beeswax to create a visual, olfactory and sound as an expression of the interconnected world we live in, where each link is only as strong as the ones surrounding it.
We are all linked through relationships, the environment, our community and our past experiences. The interlinked hexagons are a symbol of this linkage. The environment functions in an absolute way so that the loss of one link creates a huge problem. Currently colony collapse is a problem for bees. This exhibition will comment on this through various sensory experiences. As wind and weather play a part in this exhibition one important link may break causing the entire cluster to fall to the ground. This is an ephemeral ever-changing exhibition with the clusters changing shape as the length of the exhibition increases.
131 hexagon clusters in 89 trees created by Monique
This is Gaby Fortugno an Advanced Placement Art Student installing her hexagon clusters. She was a little nervos on the ladder.
And more of my clusters. It felt at times like they were multiplying in the tobaggan while waiting to be hung.
I look a little like the Michelin Man in blue, but hey I didn't care if it got beeswax on it or was torn in the trees.
