
Making Honey Triptych
Inspiration: Honey Bees are essential pollinators of food crop and wild plants and they produce Honey. My inspiration came from watching the bees gathering pollen, talking bees and honey production with a couple of friends who have bees and gather honey. This inspiration along with a desire to dust off my math and geometry skills while practicing precise glass cutting let to the design of the honeycomb. Artistic Process: For the backgrounds, I cut multiple hexagons and fired them together to create the desired thickness as well as color and depth. I then cut many hexagons in different shades of amber. These were fired to the base larger hexagons to create the honeycomb design. Cutting hexagons is the geometry and math challenge - decide size, then cut the right width in rectangle shape, determine correct angle and cut one way, flip cut another way, which gets diamond shape then make it a hexagon. The bees are kilncasted and permanently adhered to the honeycomb. The stands are