Mended Web #8 1998Nina Katchadourian interfers with nature in the most delicate way.
She has spent some of her time repairing spider webs or embroidering messages on them. She even has a web mending kit.
The spiders rebel and tear apart her needlework to restore and repair with their own vision and instincts.
Her idea from this came after she read a Swedish nature book and discovered that spiders will occassionally wrap up their prey amd give it as a gift to another spider. She also discovered that the word gift in Swedish can mean poison!
Katchadourian fended off a spider with tweezers and embroidered words in her web. The spider dismantled the work and repaired her web. The words took on new forms.
I work in an obsessive way and have always been intriqued with the efforts of spiders and ants. I admire persistence because I sometimes lack it for long periods of time. Imagine taking tiny stitches and messing with nature. I respond to the miniature and microscopic.
Perhaps a new direction in my quest for working in different and more compact ways.
www.ninakatchadourian.com
She has spent some of her time repairing spider webs or embroidering messages on them. She even has a web mending kit.
The spiders rebel and tear apart her needlework to restore and repair with their own vision and instincts.
Her idea from this came after she read a Swedish nature book and discovered that spiders will occassionally wrap up their prey amd give it as a gift to another spider. She also discovered that the word gift in Swedish can mean poison!
Katchadourian fended off a spider with tweezers and embroidered words in her web. The spider dismantled the work and repaired her web. The words took on new forms.
I work in an obsessive way and have always been intriqued with the efforts of spiders and ants. I admire persistence because I sometimes lack it for long periods of time. Imagine taking tiny stitches and messing with nature. I respond to the miniature and microscopic.
Perhaps a new direction in my quest for working in different and more compact ways.
www.ninakatchadourian.com
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