Dyck has been sculpting and drawing collaboratively with honeybees for about 18 years. The process, which can take years to complete, involves placing a foreign object such as a shoe, skate or football helmet inside a beehive and waiting to see what the bees will make of it. The wax-covered forms that emerge from this unorthodox technique are always surprising. “They remind us that we and our constructions are temporary in relation to the lifespan of earth and the processes of nature,” writes Victoria curator Cathi Charles Wherry. “This raises ideas about our shared vulnerability, while at the same time elevating the ordinariness of our humanity.”
