Les, Honeybees, the Bosque, New Mexico
Series TitleBare Handed
Artist
Holly Lynton
(American, born 1972)
Date2007; printed 2023
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 30 1/2 × 40 3/8 inches (77.47 × 102.55 cm)
Framed: 31 3/4 × 41 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (80.65 × 105.41 × 4.45 cm)
Framed: 31 3/4 × 41 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (80.65 × 105.41 × 4.45 cm)
Credit LineGift in honor of Madeline and Toler Poole
Object number2023.30
SignedOn frame backing board, lower right, white label with black pen: "1/5 Holly Lynton [signature]"
InscribedOn frame backing board, lower right, white label with black type: "Les, Honeybees, the Bosque, New Mexico, 2007 / 30 x 40-inch c-print / Edition"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/5
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L11
Collections
DescriptionImage of a bearded man standing with his hands, covered in bees, raised up to his closed eyes. He's wearing a light blue collared shirt with cuff links.Gallery LabelIn New Mexico, Holly Lynton met a beekeeper named Les who had been practicing for 30 years. "I realized he had no fear," she recalls. He refused to wear protective clothing, so he could feel the insects and sense their mood. He often spoke to them in Spanish.
Les asked Lynton if he could bring the bees to his face for her photograph. "He very slowly moved his hands up, and the bees swarmed all around. Afterwards, he said he couldn't hear anything because the buzzing was so loud. I think he was just deep in this mediation and the sound of the bees."
Holly Lynton, Leverett, MA, 2023;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.
Copyright© Holly Lynton
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