"Drawing with the Bees" is part of a series with the same title. The work is a small slab of wax with an ink drawing on paper embedded in it and finished by the bees. The bees created honeycomb encircling Dyck’s original drawing, almost as if to emphasize its line and weight, giving further impact to its organic shape. As Dyck describes, the bees often had a deliberate contribution to their collaborative practice, and usually had “the last say,” telling Dyck when the work was completed.
In 1989 Dyck began working with honeybees, which she considers to be non-human artistic collaborators. She places commonplace objects such as shoes, buttons, clothing, and figurines into beehives, and allows the bees to build up honeycomb around the objects; the bees coat some areas in honeycomb while leaving other areas exposed. These mundane objects are transformed from their original familiar contexts into new sculptural forms.