Atticus Lanigan / Other Voice on Green

BIO

Atticus Lanigan is land use planner for Orange County. She

has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1993. She has a strong

devotion to the Hudson Valley that manifests itself through

art and love on a constant basis. She has a Master’s degree

in City & Regional Planning and is a wife and mother. She

recently created a newsletter called Hudson Valley Movement.

She can be reached at immensejoy@hotmail.com

HIVE WOMAN

Bill Mckibben states, “…a bee hive is a society, which we know

from own experience is infinitely more complex than an

individual. More robust in certain ways, but more delicate too.

These are incredibly balanced, lovely evolved little nations.”
Inter-connected is everything. To develop concern for the

natural environment is to uncover in oneself an understanding

of inter-connectness (one that your soul knows inherently).

You find your heart, mind and floodgates open. The connections

seem and are endless and often too much for one mind to contain.

An individual with genuine passion for the world, in human hearts

and the physical landscape, can become overwhelmed while being

intriqued and inspired and fulfilled. This can lead to madness,

or least a slight infection, a bulbous growth that catches

dust and gives rise to little demons.
This piece snapshots the moment before the bulbous growth is

dissolved or burned, hopefully by the individual’s natural cleansing

process, allowing for more growth and the onset of new

understanding of the inter-connectness. The snapshot resides

at the end of winter, when incubation is over and an individual

can grow again, thereby also demonstrating a devotion to

the earth’s life-cycle (seasons).

Materials: used honeycomb, recycled doll’s head,

Chinese newspaper, blue flowers ripped from a very old

tattered plastic stem found in an empty blue wedding

album circa 1890s, glue, dark red thread that pervades

my work, two recycled brooches altered, camphor used

for prayer at Spice Aroma restaurant in Poughkeepsie,

a wooden box acquired from a sad florist going out of

business, nails taken From the halfway dismantled

box from the sad florist.

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All 3 images © Atticus Lanigan