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Totem of the Swarm is a 16 × 25 mixed-media work on wood panel that explores the increasingly blurred boundary between nature and technology. The bee—an ancient symbol of interdependence and survival—serves as the focal point, standing in for the rapid “pollination” of technology through every layer of contemporary life.
The piece reflects the dual role technology plays in our world: a tool for stewardship and preservation, and simultaneously a mechanism of exploitation and harm. Street-art–inspired marks and gestures reinforce this tension. Like graffiti itself, the imagery exists in a liminal space—celebrated when sanctioned, rejected when not—mirroring how innovation is embraced or condemned depending on who controls it and to what end.
Totem of the Swarm asks the viewer to consider not only how quickly systems spread, but who benefits, who bears the cost, and what is altered in the process.
Totem of the Swarm is a 16 × 25 mixed-media work on wood panel that explores the increasingly blurred boundary between nature and technology. The bee—an ancient symbol of interdependence and survival—serves as the focal point, standing in for the rapid “pollination” of technology through every layer of contemporary life.
The piece reflects the dual role technology plays in our world: a tool for stewardship and preservation, and simultaneously a mechanism of exploitation and harm. Street-art–inspired marks and gestures reinforce this tension. Like graffiti itself, the imagery exists in a liminal space—celebrated when sanctioned, rejected when not—mirroring how innovation is embraced or condemned depending on who controls it and to what end.
Totem of the Swarm asks the viewer to consider not only how quickly systems spread, but who benefits, who bears the cost, and what is altered in the process.