Artist Meg Cranston uses this historical reference with a contemporary twist. The bee motif is silkscreened onto the elevator glass and appears as well on wall tiles and in paving patterns. Bronze tiles at the platform level reference ancient Greek coins which featured the industrious honeybee. For this project I wanted to convey a sense of history but also to reflect modern times. I chose bees as an emblem for Norwalk because they are linked with the area's earliest population.
Bees also have exemplary social instincts bee colonies are much like families.
As an artist I am interested in craftsmanship and I wanted to maintain the sense of a homemade object. I tried to give the bees a joyful attitude to make them bright and fun. Something that would provide a smile to people both going to work and coming home. She studied anthropology at Kenyon College in Ohio, and art at California Institute of the Arts. Cranston currently lives and works in Venice, California.