Luci Jockel

"Can the touch of bee wings on one’s shoulders serve as a reminder of the fragility of life? In my work, the bee is a martyr for our ecosystem- a symbol of the influence we have upon non-human counterparts and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable." Luci Jockel 

Luci Jockel is a jeweller based in Baltimore who is also Metal smithing & Jewellery Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Here she has sources over 20000 bee wings from hives that died due to harsh winter/ climate change, and created incredible lace like pieces. In exchange for the bee remains she helped the bee keeper re-build his hives for the next year. Since then Luci and her dad have become bee keepers.

"The honey bee serves as a symbol of our interconnectivity, the influence we have upon non-human counterparts, and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable. It is not only about the bees, who have a complex impact on agriculture, but the pollinators, the insects, the animals that make up our ecosystem and our lost connection to them."