A theme in Stefaan van Biesen's work attempts to metaphorically place our thinking in our relationship with nature and social context. The artefact 'Swimmer/Doveman's ears (II)' hides a strange kind of ambiguity within it through the various associations it evokes. On the one hand, the work refers to a contemporary ecological actuality where you can read the work as a strange kind of bee, or resonance hive, but also as a collector to which the casual passer-by entrusts his thoughts or reflections.
In a broader biodiversity story, bees perform an extremely important function of pollinating agricultural crops, fruit crops and wild plants. For centuries, it was known that bees communicate about food in a way, but it was always a mystery until it was discovered that bees emit low-frequency sounds. The claim that bees use sound to communicate fell on 'deaf ears', as the then current belief was that bees could not 'hear'. Honey bees produce many frequencies of vibration and sound that provide valuable information about or for the colony.