Participating Artists: at Carkeek Park: Anette Lusher April Lelia Thendara Kida Gee Chris Papa Barbara De Pirro Gabriel Brown Aaron Haba Brian Gerich Miguel Edwards By Hand Fiber Consortium Reginald Brooks Stephen Rock Zucker, Turner, Jacobson Peppé Julie Lindell Matt Babcock at Point Shilshole Beach: David Francis Dan Smith Sylwia Tur Eden Rivers Teresa Burrelsman Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: 4Culture Site Specific Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs QFC Potter Construction		Site 2: Thendara Kida-Gee Seattle, Washington Bee Love 2011 2011 My work tends to bring to light the lesser regarded subjects and objects of our culture and environment. Whether finding beauty in the ruins and rubbles of our culture, or singing praise for the meekest of the meek I like to give to voice to those who might go otherwise undetected. In 2000 I hosted an intervention in London city with fellow artist Holly Delas Casas where we welcomed pigeons back to the city with heart shaped graffiti in public thoroughfares - a city that maligns pigeons and thinks nothing of the fact that they aren't dirty, but is us that is dirty who they feed on - so how can we dislike what we create and what agrees to fill this urban habitat with life ? (although pigeon feeding was a huge tourist draw in Trafalgar Square for a good many years.) The plight of the bees is one such voice I would like to reinforce, as Einstein says "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Our entire food chain is reliant on these little fellows and i wish to offer a little extra safe harbor. How at odds are we with our fellow creatures of this earth? We could be living in harmonic symbiosis with them yet we are actually killing those who feed us, and allow for our entire existence. With our highly developed brains one would think we would take more care in how we kept house. Those of us who are loud and make the most noise stomp over those who are quiet and if we look at this as survival of the fittest well when those fit survive will bees survive right along with them? Is it survival to kill what and who provides you with food? To look at the quieter voices that surround us from the shyest human down to the gentle hum of a bee we see there's variation and strength in diversity rather than complete encompassing of the moral majority. We need to tread a little lighter and think twice about what it is we consume as well as release, before the world becomes inflamed with a bunch of belligerent shouters and at a loss of our quieter and much necessary friends. www.thendarakida.com