Description
Twelve hand-carved bees cling and hover across a single piece of parasite wood, their striped bodies and paper-thin wings whittled from pale wood and set with fine wire antennae. The gnarled, hollowed base beneath them is genuine parasite wood — a burl-like growth that forms naturally on host trees in Indonesia and keeps its twisting, cave-like shape long after the original tree is gone, giving each stand its own hollows, ridges, and knots to work with.
Because every base begins as a completely different piece of found wood, the artisan carves and positions each bee individually to suit the terrain of that particular stump — no two swarms are arranged quite the same way, and slight differences in bee count, angle, and perch are part of building around a material that never repeats itself. Look closely and you’ll see the fine ridges left by hand-carving tools on each bee’s body and the small color shifts across the wood’s natural surface, evidence of a piece shaped entirely by hand rather than stamped from a mould.
If you’re after a gift for the beekeeper, gardener, or nature-lover in your life who already has enough candles and mugs, this is the kind of oddly captivating object that gets picked up and studied rather than glanced at once.
The Artisan’s Mark
The gnarled base of each piece is genuine parasite wood – a dense, naturally-formed growth that develops on host trees and survives long after the tree itself decays. No two bases share the same shape, so the artisan carves and mounts each figure to fit its own unique piece of wood. This means every item is one-of-a-kind before a single cut is even made.
A note on our photos
We only use AI to clean up the background of our photos — never to alter the product itself. What you see is the actual piece, imperfections and all. That’s the nature of handmade.
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