Bees in the Back of the Volkswagen is a singular, dreamlike work from the same richly creative period that gave us Crossroads and Staircase — a time of intense personal reflection and prolific artistic expression. Created in colored pencil, ink, and graphite on Arches paper and printed on acid-free paper, this piece was born directly from a vivid, powerful dream that has stayed with Jessica for decades — a swarm of bees trapped in the back of her 1968 Volkswagen, an image so charged with meaning it demanded to be made visible.
 
The composition is rendered from an intimate interior perspective — the viewer sits within the car, looking out through the curved back window at the road already traveled, receding into a blazing horizon of amber, flame orange, and electric yellow. The road behind is memory, the past, the journey already taken. But between the viewer and that retreating horizon, filling the back of the car in a dense, swirling golden mass, is the swarm — hundreds of tiny bee forms rendered in warm yellow, chaotic and contained, buzzing with barely contained energy against the deep interior.
 
The car itself is both vessel and metaphor — its blue outlined frame, open window, and familiar domestic interior grounding the dream in the recognizable world, even as the swarm transforms it into something mythic and charged. In dream symbolism, a trapped swarm of bees often represents industrious energies that have become chaotic or confined — a buildup of creative force, stress, and vitality that has yet to find its release. For Jessica, this image arrived at a time of extraordinary creative energy and personal transformation.
 
For the discerning collector, Bees in the Back of the Volkswagen is a work unlike any other in Jessica's body of work — narrative, symbolic, deeply personal, and visually unforgettable. It is a natural conversation piece for a curated living space, library, or studio, and a rare example of dream imagery transformed into enduring fine art.
 
Available as a signed, limited edition giclée print — just 50 pieces per size — in 9"×12", 14"×18.5", and 18"×24".