Hannah Hornby
Current Trajectory, 2023
Mixed Media Installation, Photography, Books, Beekeeper’s Suit, Sea Weed, Coastal Maps, Video, Looped
Artist Book, Self-Published
Unbeknownst to the general public, large areas across the globe will be submerged below the tideline by 2030. A small community of beekeepers in Southern England are embarking on a mission to document these areas before their foretold disappearance below the waves, to create a record for future generations.
My aim for this project is to educate, through the experiences of a fictional group of beekeepers, about the imminent impact of climate change close to home. Using predictions from the leading consensus to document areas forecast to be below the tideline by 2030, we see how soon we will be experiencing the effect of this growing global concern. Climate change and its inevitable impacts are so huge that they can be challenging to comprehend and process.
I hope that through viewing this work, people will understand the severity of climate change and how it will potentially impact local communities very soon. The link to the work of local beekeepers in maintaining the honeybee population is also entirely relevant, with evidence that climate change adversely impacts bee populations through increased extremes of weather, habitat loss, and prolonged flooding.
