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Where Bees are Held
 

Centred on flowers as world-makers for bees—a place of origin, refuge, labour, and return, these series

honour flowers not as decoration, but as dwelling. They are the world the bee enters—where it feeds, rests, labours, sleeps, and finally returns to the earth. Petals unfurl as shelter; centres glow as hearths. Each bloom is a temporary home, generously given.

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The forms open outward like breathing bodies, creating landscapes of welcome. Lines radiate and curve as pathways, veins, and thresholds—routes the bee follows by instinct and trust. Colour gathers at the heart, marking nourishment, warmth, and rest. What we see as abstraction is, for the bee, orientation and belonging.

Flowers do not ask how long the bee will stay. They offer themselves fully—nectar for strength, pollen for purpose, softness for pause. In this exchange, life is carried forward, but the flower also receives the bee’s final gift: its labour, its exhaustion, its body returning to soil.

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This work reflects a sacred ecology, where life is sustained through hospitality. The flowers create space not only for living, but for dying—to be held, to be completed, to be given back. It reminds us that the world continues because something chooses to open, again and again, without possession or fear.

In the quiet generosity of flowers, the bee finds everything it needs.
And so do we.

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