the bumblebee spree } the el adly family

hala

just for fun and curiosity i placed this lady in one of my plant pots a few weeks ago. i decided that she may have had enough of being in the sun surrounded by insects and soil. i laid her in my palm and watered her down. she melded so nicely with my skin and thus the idea was born

A few days ago I was watering my plants and made a nice little discovery. It wasn’t a global discovery, as glue had already been invented. But I found that with just water and tracing paper, I could easily create a physical bond between my girls and flesh-and-blood humans. I tested the first ‘prototype’ on myself and liked the result. So I thought, as always, that I’d get others in on the fun. The first person I thought of was my friend Hala, who has a marvelous face. I Whatsapp-ed her a succinct (and apparently innuendo-charged) message: I need your face. I prepared the girls and took them over to Hala’s this morning. It was only when I took a photo of her punch-me-in-the-face-now-gorgeous daughter Kiki that the girls resembled bumblebees. Hence the title of this series. I think I’m going to have a LOT of fun with this project. And I hope you enjoy it too.

before they were bees

kiki and the first bee ever

queen bee

ahmed. ahmed is hala’s husband and kiki’s dad. this bee was intended for hala and ahmed’s son yousef, but somehow dad got there first