The Bee Tarot Hive Series explores the symbolic structure of a hive through the lens of tarot archetypes.

Each hive is hand-painted and designed as a functional home for bees, while also serving as a symbolic portrait of the roles that sustain a colony. Like tarot cards, each panel represents an archetype within a larger system: leadership, labor, cooperation, and survival.

The work draws parallels between the structure of a beehive and human systems of community, responsibility, and hierarchy. Bees operate as a collective intelligence—each role essential, each individual part of something larger.

By presenting the hive like a tarot card, the series invites viewers to reflect on their own place within systems of work, leadership, and interdependence.

These pieces exist at the intersection of art, ecology, and symbolism, transforming a utilitarian object into a narrative structure.

Works in the Series

The Queen
Symbolizes leadership, fertility, and the central force that sustains the colony. The crowned queen bee sits beneath dripping honey and flowering growth, representing both abundance and responsibility.

The Worker
Represents labor, cooperation, and the quiet architecture of survival. Worker bees build, gather, and sustain the hive—an archetype of collective effort and invisible labor.