3 Feet or 3 Miles
You can only move a beehive “3 feet or 3 miles”
This project documents the destruction of a small utopia, near my family home, in which we kept, chickens, ducks, and most importantly, my dad kept his beehives. The images in this project depict the landscape after the trees have been felled, the vegetation cleared and a new chain link fence has been constructed.
The destruction of this landscape to make way for the building of new houses has destroyed not only our space, but also the trees in which birds lived, and the wide variety of native plants that grew on the land. The silence is now deafening, and the land is scarred beyond recognition.
The photographs in the project depict the destruction of this area, which is a fundamental element of the rapid changes to the landscape and area that I called home.
April 2019
April 2020
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and she leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as she found them.
- Saint Francis de Sales
