Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida The patiently waiting

The patiently waiting

8 13/16" x 5 11/16" x 2 1/4"

Pencil and watercolor on lined paper

I purchased it from a Boston-based tramp art collector and author in the process of selling off some 50 years accumulation

who created many collages in a similar vein early in her career

Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida The patiently waitingThis is a very simple one as far as bee boxes go nothing more than a four sided box with two plates of glass held in grooves, to slide open or closed for catch or release. There are rows of old nail holes in the wood, so perhaps there was once some sort of frame around it, but maybe more likely the wood was repurposed from something else. I love these old bee boxes for the way that they embody individualistic solutions to the problem at hand (in this