It’s common for bees that fly over lavender shrubs to refresh themselves on their pollen-dusted nectar and to carry it to their hives where it is converted into honey, which human beings soon proceed to rob for their own purposes. In Nakafurano, however, it is tourists that fly over lavender fields – accompanied by loudspeaker-music. And one asks oneself what it is that these people extract from the flowers and take home, and what they make of it – in the best case perhaps honey for the soul, which time then steals from them.
First Publication: 11-8-2014
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