Talia Greene

I wish I’d known about this artist earlier! Her work is incredibly similar to the things I was doing for the EIPW over the summer, making prints of bees and honeycomb patterns.

Her work includes a series called ‘Colony,’ pictured. The swarms are created by glueing flies directly onto a print of an antique photograph or postcard. The collage is then scanned, and reprinted. Taken from this article.

The amazing wallpaper above is from Cross Pollination, an installation described in this website review from Printeresting. 

“The installation, Cross-Pollination (II), questions our assumptions about the disorder of nature and the sterility of human bodies and spaces, finding whimsy, design, and beauty among the apparent chaos. Bees emerge from vents and pipes in the gallery space, dismantling the filigree pattern to interpose their own structure on the walls, yet periodically also coming to rest within the geometry of the pattern. The pattern, honeycomb, and bees, are all composed of the same natural detritus – dried flower stems and stamen, bug parts, and human hair.”

“As pests and interlopers in our homes, insects elicit an uncomfortable feeling of loosing control of our bodies and surroundings. From a distance, their chaotic nature feels menacing and contrary to the order of human society. A closer analysis reveals a more complex balance between chaos and organization.”