The BookA curated selection of these scans were sequenced alongside a unique narration to create a limited edition box set entitled No Honey No Money : a modern tale of the beekeeper, his queen, and their bees. Referencing traditional Slovene folklore and contemporary pop culture, No Honey No Money is a bilingual graphic scan-book for children and art enthusiasts alike.
This three part box-set, includes;
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Making ofInitially working with photography, Badawi set out to catalogue this unique art form in the summer of 2017.
Eventually swapping his camera to work with high performance flatbed scanners, through interviews with local beekeepers, collectors and a partnership with the National Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubjuana (SEM), creating the first ever digitized repertoire of ancient Slovenian apiary art. No Honey No Money, which features selection of this of ancient Slovenian apiary art includes not only paintings, but found-objects, embroidery, and even a scanned honeycomb. |
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The official launch of No Money No Honey will take place at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum on September 26,2018 as part of a temporary exhibition, “Where the Bees are at Home”, and will remain on view until June 16th, 2019.
The author and artist, of ancestry is partially Slovene ( see Aleksandrinke ) will be also offering twelve of his own custom-made wooden bee panels as part of donated to the museum's permanent collection. These unique works can be seen here. |
