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FS: Bumblebee Hive, by svenman on Nov 27, 2011 0:22:36 GMT 1, some more info on the hives he puts on the streets.


beehive 12 by bumblebeelovesyou, on Flickr


beehive by bumblebeelovesyou, on Flickr

"Telephone companies have been abandoning their public telephone booths by taking out the phones and leaving the structures beehind. (Probably due to the rise in cell phone users.) I want to reuse these structures as a way of communication with the public once more by replacing that empty space with paper-mache beehives. To me, this symbolizes the irony beehind the question, 'where have so many of the bees gone' and the theory that cell phone signals have been misguiding their normal patterns of migration"

some more info on the hives he puts on the streets.


beehive 12 by bumblebeelovesyou, on Flickr


beehive by bumblebeelovesyou, on Flickr

"Telephone companies have been abandoning their public telephone booths by taking out the phones and leaving the structures beehind. (Probably due to the rise in cell phone users.) I want to reuse these structures as a way of communication with the public once more by replacing that empty space with paper-mache beehives. To me, this symbolizes the irony beehind the question, 'where have so many of the bees gone' and the theory that cell phone signals have been misguiding their normal patterns of migration"