by irishelk » Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:17 pm
Earnest
relevant the material of sculpture? Yes! Wood? marble? various materials? This--I believe there is wood, metal, and something else... trash? any among: gold, silver, aluminum, copper, brass, lead, and iron? No to rest.
oxidation relevant? Sculpture maintenance relevant? aging of the sculpture? rust relevant? Do bees take part to the build up of sculpture directly? Yes! Sustain its structure? No to rest.
Sculpture of an hive? Yesish, I think you may have it?
...I am figuring out something like: the shape of a sculpture is given by humans, Yes, but the "row material is given by bees" Yes, ...idk how to explain it but actually something like an iron structure having a certain shape is posed on a pedestal, Yes, maybe with a smell that attracts bees during a relevant process. Bees gathering around the "iron skeleton" produce a sort of sculpture...It is not the bees' bodies themselves making up the sculpture...
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Do they do this thing to protect themselves against predators? Against weather events? Hibernation relevant? Something they do at the change of seasons? I believe all of these are involved.
Do the bees do something that aids in the production of sculpting material? Yes, in fact they produce the material itself! Tools used to make the sculpture? Yope. Do they provide inspiration for sculptures? ie., they create a formation when they fly that inspired a sculptor? Not like this.
Should these bees be mentioned anywhere sculptures are? No. Or sculptures made with the same material(s)? Not every one, but any that were made in this exact way. Or would the bees be relevant only at this one museum? If this is the only sculpture of this kind, which it might be.