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Hive #2 | JLWojinski | watercolor collage , 2017

Now Featured with Artist Recognition in a SaatchiArt collection!

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Hive #2 | JLWojinski  watercolor collage, paper on paper , 2017, diptych, 18″w x 24″h per panel

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‘Hive #2′_watercolor collage | JLWojinski

The hexagon, or six sided polygon, has been an obsession of late. It represents one of the most efficient shapes in nature, the bee hive, the hive mind, the collective unconscious, one of the building blocks of sacred geometric formations and more.It is also my exploration of the process of destruction that is required to create. In seeking a way to integrate various aspects of my personality, my work and  my true  expression into a more distinct voice, I felt the urge to create something ‘quilt’ like, something symbolic but beautiful and useful, something paper that ‘feels’ like it could be fabric, something that connects to a deep sense of inter-connectedness to the whole of humanity.

Each hexagon was hand cut from original paintings, entire diptych is hand assembled. Actual size per panel is 18"w x 24"h.

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Kitsound Hive 2 Bluetooth Speaker Review

Kitsound Hive 2 Bluetooth Speaker Review

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Introduction

Brand: Kitsound Model: Hive 2 UK Price: £35 @Amazon.co.uk (at time of review) US Price: $69.50 @Amazon.com (at time of review)

British engineering may have gone the way of British Rail and British Steel, and pretty much any manufacturing industry we could be proud of (sad face), so when I received the Kitsound Hive 2 I confess that I didn’t get very…

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Hive 3!  My First Split

2015-05-25.  Amazingly, after only a couple of weeks Hive 2 had expanded to nearly fill the one brood chamber and had also made a lot of extra comb in odd places (”spur comb”).  They had begun to make queen cells (sorry, no pix!), a precursor to swarming.  

So I quickly got Hive 3 set up for a “split” - a colony composed of brood and nurse bees that will create their own brand new queen.  I took three frames full of brood at various stages, including a few queen cells, rapped all the bees off back into the hive, and put them in the new brood chamber for Hive 3.  I knocked off the bees because I only wanted “nurse” bees, who are apparently committed to brood, not to the queen.  I also did not want to accidentally move the queen or any of the foraging bees (those would be ”field bees”) in the new hive split.  Then I put a “queen excluder” over the original Hive 2 brood box to keep the queen in, and set the new brood box on top, with the hope that nurse bees would move up through the screen to the brood in the split.

After a few hours the split was full of bees, hopefully mostly nurse bees.  I took it off Hive 2 and put it on its own base, creating Hive 3!

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Hive 2 Arrives!

2015-05-09  This year I decided to have more than one hive, so I set up three.  Today I picked up Hive #2 as a “nuc” (nucleus) from Boston Honey Company in Holliston, MA.  (www.bostonhoneycompany.com).  Hive 1 came as a “package”, which consists of a queen in a tiny box and about 10,000 random bees from a bunch of different hives (”shaken” in a barrel and dumped in the package with the queen-in-a-box).  So, there is no honey, no comb, no eggs or brood.  They have to start from scratch, as discussed below, and the population dwindles for the first 21 days until the new brood begins to emerge.  On the other hand, a “nuc” consists of 4-5 frames from an established hive with a queen-on-the-loose, all her devoted subject bees and lots of baby bees on the way as well as pollen and honey stores.  So a bee nuc hits the ground running and grows from day 1, depending on available resources.  I am hoping to grow Hive 2 rapidly enough to “split” it into a third hive pretty soon...