Statue that doubles as a beehive

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San Francisco is home to a unique combination of outside artwork that coexists within the city’s urban nature. But there’s perhaps no more apparent nexus of the two than at the au naturel display that’s enveloped around Pierre Huyhges’s Exomind (Deep Water) statue at the de Young Museum as of late.

Located in the museum’s Sculpture Garden, the statue’s head is covered by a beehive — occupied by a live colony of bees. (The concrete sculpture depicts a crouching woman, the posturing based on a small statue by the Japanese sculptor Tobari Kogan [1882–1927], whose work was influenced by European modernism.)

 

Over the past few months, beekeeper Marc Johnson, who’s a member of the San Francisco Beekeepers Association, has been tending to the statue, ensuring the existing (and growing) colony of bees are alive and well.

“I don’t know if I’m an artist, but I’m the chief beekeeper for this project,” says Marc Johnson to the California News Times.

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looks very The Fame Monster 

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1 minute ago, alsemanche said:

“I don’t know if I’m an artist, but I’m the chief beekeeper for this project,” says Marc Johnson

"Its not much but it's honest work" kinda guy

super cool statue

[COOOK 76,406]

I DON'T NEED A REASON 

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Utah quaking in its boots

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1 hour ago, COOOK said:

I DON'T NEED A REASON 

you mean a Beeson