I’ve been thinking a lot about spiders lately: the myth of Arachne and Athena, the association of spiders with weaving, knitting and other fiber arts, the amazing ability of spiders to coordinate all eight of those legs…I have been visiting the pedestrian bridge over Willamette and observing the spiders who set up shop there. This video does a good job of showing their work:

In relation to my mythological world of the technology web being spun around the globe, the webmisstress is a key figure. I brought her to life a few months ago in etching form, as a character study.

Now I am thinking about enacting her activity and creating her webs as an abstraction of the complexity of the human network which exists today.

These are still in the experimental stage. I want to incorporate more structures and complexity into the webs, bringing patterns and more concrete forms.