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  • painting 50,000 bees all over the world is no simple task.

  • But Matt Willie has made it his mission.

  • A project he's called the Good of the hive, even though it is a healthy hive of bees that visually will be painted.

  • Um, it's really us.

  • I'm painting the human race into this collective hive.

  • The project name was inspired by the bees natural inclination to work as a collective rather than his individuals Through it.

  • The artist wants to encourage us all to connect with each other in a similar way while educating us about planetary health issues.

  • It's about the fact that we're feeling alone in the process of going through it.

  • The B is not separate from her hive, and neither are we.

  • The idea sparked from a single chance encounter with a B back in 2000 and eight in my apartment.

  • It just flew in and landed on the floor in the middle of the rug, and, um, I got curious about her.

  • She was walking across the floor instead of flying around at me, so I had no fear, and I had no background in nature bugs or anything.

  • But I just got curious, And I got down on the floor and hung out with this little be for like, two hours as she walked the last two inches of her life and I noticed that there was acuteness.

  • I was like, I'm looking at a little tiny animal, not a bug as I understood it, you know?

  • And I just really connected with this.

  • Be, um there was the fuzziness, the big guys.

  • There was just a personality there that I couldn't not see.

  • Since then, over 6000 bees have appeared around the world everywhere, from a barn roof in Nebraska to a school in the UK Theme murals contain weeks at a time to create, but the process has already brought several communities together.

  • At a time when the Bees message is more pertinent than ever, All these amazing things happens.

  • Somebody put me up in their RV for free.

  • For 10 weeks, people started giving me free salad bar for free food and restaurants.

  • The coffee shop wouldn't let me pay for a cup of coffee, and the community was sort of coming together around this.

  • I would turn around and there would be like an 18 year old girl with, like tattoos and a nose ring, talking to an 80 year old farmer and just agreeing and sort of looking at the B.

  • So it's like there's something energetically happening here that's cool.

  • The target of 50 0 bees is high, but it's not random.

  • It represents the number of bees in a healthy, thriving hive.

  • While bees are the experts at working together, this artist is flying solo on.

  • There's still a fair way to go.

  • My goal has always been to be in every type of neighborhood in the world.

  • I think I'm looking at.

  • Ideally, in my mind, I'm looking at 15 more years.

painting 50,000 bees all over the world is no simple task.

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