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Dyck says she understands why humans might think they aren't part of nature, but that it's "crazy" to say we aren't part of the environment. Her collaborations with bees are intended to remind us how connected we are to our environment, and how much we depend on bees and other pollinating insects for our food supply. Without bees, we'd starve. Their lives are knitted deeply into our own, just as these honeycombs are bound to the bodies of these human-created icons.

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Dyck has an exhibition, Honeybee Alterations, that opens at the Ottawa School of Art on March 3, 2014.

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