The Order of Small Things

$400.00

16.5” x 6.5” x 2”

On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME

This piece merges the organic and the mechanical, a meditation on labor and design. Here, bees and gears echo one another, speaking to cycles of work, pattern, and persistence across both nature and industry.

16.5” x 6.5” x 2”

On display and available for purchase at Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, ME

This piece merges the organic and the mechanical, a meditation on labor and design. Here, bees and gears echo one another, speaking to cycles of work, pattern, and persistence across both nature and industry.

Materials List

  • Bee images under cabochons

  • Brass gears and cogs

  • Honeycomb-textured packing material

  • Bronze square accents with cutout motifs

  • Wood panel

    This assemblage combines the organic rhythm of the hive with the precision of mechanical gears. Bees, sealed beneath resin, are framed by a honeycomb-like texture and brass forms that suggest both sacred geometry and industrial design. The piece explores the relationship between nature’s instinctive order and humanity’s constructed machines.