ink on paper
2013
© Richard A. Kirk
Here’s a vignette from a new piece that I’m working on called Lamentation for the Last Drop of Honey. I always have fun with the title of my pieces, but this drawing had at its heart a serious concern: the devastation we’ve seen in honey bee populations. I’m not a scientist, I am an artist, and so my response is through art. It’s not a message. It’s more a reflection or meditation. The finished piece will appear (in reproduction) in TOME II Melancholia and (the original art) the November beinArt show at Copro Gallery next month.
© Richard A. Kirk 2013
The weather has been remarkable this past week. I was able to get out to take some reference photographs. This one was taken in a nearby bog.
Richard.
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 
Indeed, the honeybee populations have plummeted; many possible explanations, yet none to cause a halt to the decline; I am sure that with your deft skill of blending organic/creature/humanoid/fantasy that what you end up with as the finished product(s) will be quite provocative & stirring; The use of “Lamentation” in the title is perfect…(for it truly is a lamentation…one that just “may” end in a universal grieving and sadness, should “their” complete demise ever come to pass…)
Thanks Kip!