This Art call was for Community Resilience. Based on Richard Heinberg's Post Carbon Institute and Think Resilience websites that spring from his book Power, Michele Guieu has created these amazing bi-monthly art calls that address artists' responses and expressions to the topics related to climate change.
While in England, we saw several Bug Hotels that were the result of community efforts to maintain balance in supporting helpful bugs and pollinators. We repurposed a small cabinet to make the structure. Brian and I will be sharing our experience in creating a bug hotel with instructions for our neighborhood, and community (via NextDoor and local newspapers) as well as on my website and, obviously, Instagram.
Helping people to become aware of the importance of insect communities as we urbanize and destroy open fields, wooded areas, and clear spaces to look neat, we lose the intricate balance of bugs, birds, plants, and other native species and animals.
So this is just the beginning of this project! We still need to add more to our Bug Inn but it's basically set. The mason bees won't inhabit the hollow tubes (not completed) until spring so we have time. I love the textures of each section and will enjoy creating a fun sign to go with this Bug Inn. It has been an exercise in practicality and aesthetics.
Thanks for this Art Call!
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