If You Think A Human Created These Beautiful Sculptures You'll Be Sorely Mistaken
by N/A, 9 years ago |
2 min read
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1988
Who was the sculptor behind these you ask? Not a man, not an ape, not even a dolphin...bees. 60,000 of them to be exact.
Bees: nature's little inadvertent artists
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They built their beautiful honeycomb structure around a wire-frame constructed by artist Tomáš LibertÃny
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He simply shaped a metal skeleton and let the little builders do the rest
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LibertÃny's project titled, Thousand Years, is an ode to the power and collaborative intelligence of nature, in this particular case, these brilliant bees
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His inspiration to do the project came from the film "The Millenial Bee" and Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
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And as you'll see even moreso, LibertÃny isn't unfamiliar with working with these creative little creatures
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Their beautiful art is displayed in a number of exhibits
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And LibertÃny certainly doesn't take credit for the remarkable work
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Do not show me this again