| My inspiration comes from my close relationship with nature. I don’t think man is the most superior of all creatures. Before nature, before disasters, before wars, we are just as small as bees and ants. We are just as vulnerable. Mankind is just a small part of the universe. Bees don’t know mathematics or physics, yet they build hives that are so symmetrical and beautiful. I use the image of a hive to express my respect for nature. I combine images of human and social phenomena with the hive. | 
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Zhang Tian is an artist based in Beijing.
Zhang Tian, Beehive, 2008. Installation, 96 x 96 x 48 cm. Courtesy of March Art/Felix Ringel Gallery Beijing.My inspiration comes from my close relationship with nature. I don’t think man is the most superior of all creatures. Before nature, before disasters, before wars, we are just as small as bees and ants. We are just as vulnerable. Mankind is just a small part of the universe.
Bees don’t know mathematics or physics, yet they build hives that are so symmetrical and beautiful. I use the image of a hive to express my respect for nature. I combine images of human and social phenomena with the hive. With that I hope to start a discussion about man’s relationship with society, nature, and the universe, time and space, great and small, instant and perpetual.
