Post 8

The piece I decided to pick for my blog post was Sonia Romero’s Bee Fantasy on acrylic and block painting. The image displays an unclothed woman lying down with an unemotional face daydreaming. I believe that the woman is thinking or reflecting upon some aspect of life or trying to solve this major break through problem. The woman does not seem to be overtly sexualized or in a position implying sexual intentions, but the background is red, which implies passion or blood. Perhaps the image is displaying how simple things humans can do in everyday situations that could be viewed by some as a sexual signal or simply bloodshed. The artist states in an interview “my piece in the exhibition is an appreciation of honey bees in light of the recent environmental phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder. The disappearance of our pollinators is a national disaster.” The woman in the painting also has different colors of bees drawn onto some parts of her body. I believe that the bees drawn onto her body symbolize that bees are so crucial and important to all aspects of life and that human beings are one of the things that depend heavily on bees to survive.