Ladanzadeicolori
Aria Villagrassa
Visual artist & Art therapist
The BEE TIME Residency
Forest Row - Sussex
WANDERING IN THE BEE TIME
The project, concerning paintings, video and poetry, wants to explore the world of bees with a sensitive approache naturally inspired by this little creatures each one part of an unique big soul.
I was fascinated by their complex world and I tried to feel them through meditation and contemplation. Observing them flying I could feel their intense love for flowers. Through them I could perceive a deeper connection with the sacred natural world. They are so delicated and pure and at the same time so powerful!
In my paintings I chose to work on exagon shapes reminding to the idea of the beehive cells.
I would create an "Imaginary Garden", an ideal place where bees can love their flowers in peace and where people can contemplate, respect and love the bees. The paintings aim to sensibilize people to the beauty of the relationship with nature and to the importance of preservation of a species that is so precious and delicate. The work also talks metaphorically about the possibility in everyone to find a place deep inside to virtually take care of an imaginary garden where love and harmony can bloom. It is still a work in progress and I'm working on it at the moment.
The video titled "Wandering in the Bee Time" represents a connection, almost untouchable and suspended, with bees, a wander in a shared time beyond the time and wants to talk through natural feelings rising from this sensitive meeting. Images and sounds invite the viewer to let himself float in this candid, tender and sacred moment
A poem on the issue accompanies the video as an invisible breathing coming in and out from the beehive always leading the bee in her flight.
During the two weeks I spent in Forest Row I was just starting to feel the mistery of the beehive and in a certain way I could taste a natural sense of life that I still keep with me and which is still working inside me. I feel gratefull for the beautiful people I could met there and to the marvellous nature all around me. Thanks to all the natural beekeepers and to their bees and thanks to the biodynamic farmers. A particular thank to my husband Roberto that shared this experience with me and worked together with me at the video in a special and harmonious way.
And she goes
through the silent souls of trees
taking with her my whispering desire
And she makes her way to me
with a soft velvet caress
Then she comes back..
I can feel her heartbeat
when she's floating in rhyme with
the planetary dances.
And you can feel me
while I'm breathing in my tender loneliness.
We are not alone in the flying time
And the starry space between us
is always full of innocent love.
WANDERING IN THE BEE TIME
Ilaria Villagrassa In collaboration with Roberto Ghisu
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photo by Roberto Ghisu