'Become'-

There is a dream that I remember as vividly as if I had dreamed it last night. I always wondered why it stayed with me.
I was sitting on a bullet train (though I had never been on one before) and I was staring out the right side window as the train traveled on rails as tall as skyscrapers giving the illusion that it was flying through the misty morning. Everything carried a tinge of gray and when I looked past the window and through the mist, I saw that the entire city below was covered with plants. I was not surprised or horrified. I was content because I knew that people and nature were living together in harmony; one was not taking over the other, rather, they were living with a beautiful coexistence, which was what I wanted for the world.

The week that we were creating the concept and designing the project, an issue kept resurfacing in my life in different ways. It was the plight of the honey bees and the worrisome increase in the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) rampaging the commercial hives. The bees were mysteriously dying off and no one could figure out why. Our economy and our very livelihood could be in peril if the bees were to disappear altogether. We are dependent on bees to pollinate our crops, which then feed our livestock, which then sustain human beings. Without bees, our current civilization would only last four years.

(she is copper and silver. the plants are copper with cupric nitrate patina that makes it green and her head is two pieces rivited together for a slight robot reference. The abdomen is made up of eleven rings fitted together.The body is a small raised bowl, and the legs are made up of 5 parts (some spiculums) each...that's 30 parts total...I was afraid I'd lose a foot or something....