Bees Finding Pleasure v.2 (from Answer Music)

“As I made “Bees Finding Pleasure v.2,” I tried to imagine myself as a bee, burying my fuzzy face in a cloud of color and scent, greedily licking up flavors. Clearly, I had to paint as lusciously as I could muster to get this across…. To suggest scent, I surrounded the bee with little cloud shapes, since scent is delivered as an aerosol to the nose, but scientifically speaking this was a dumb move, since bees smell with their feet! Can you picture what the world would be if we could smell with our feet? I think I’d like my bedroom flooring to be made from eucalyptus and cinnamon wood. This funny exercise in bee empathy is a potent way to understand the Umwelt, a proposal that the world is not a stable picture, but that every species experiences the earth a little differently. The blue sky, warm sun, and sloshing ocean that we humans think are so universal are in fact a creation of our human senses and other living things may known an entirely different earth! This blows my mind.”
— Mike Glier