Artificial Flowers
A new type of artificial flower for bees and other pollinators
To Atelier Boelhouwer the relationship between flowers and insects is one of the most fascinating connections found in nature. Flowers evolved to serve insects and insects evolved to serve flowers simultaneously. Nowadays however, with all of us living in urban jungles made of concrete and stone, the presence of flowers has become something less natural in our cityscapes. This lack of flowering has resulted in a drastic insect population decline. By making urban environments flower again, we'll stimulate our so important insect population and help them to flourish again. But how can you make a concrete or brick wall flower? How do you tell a bee that it can eat something it isn't used to? To answer these questions I developed Insectology: Food for Buzz, a series of artificial ongoing flowering flowers to serve as an emergency food source for the 'big 5 of pollination': bees, bumblebees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths.