The Spiders Web – Wrapping and Bindings

Posted on 13/01/2014 Updated on 12/10/2015

This is a piece I made during my A Levels. It’s based from Tomás Saraceno’s work ’14 Billion’, where he recreated a spiders web after extensive research into how spider make their webs. I have taken my own perspective and created this massive piece which took over half the room, took multiple days to complete, and required 100’s of meters of string. I really enjoyed making this piece and I would love to make something similar.

The piece invites you in but also has an aspect of eeriness to it as it hangs over you and engulfs you. Upon the lines are pieces of paper with words of what friends from my class thought of spiders; the pieces of paper are so small that you have to get close to the web to read it, making it more uncomfortable for the viewer.

I also wrote a little poem to go with it:

An empty shell, an abandoned home. With no life, but memories it owns. A structure strong, that’s thick and thin. With words upon the lines, where people have been. A web cast to last generations, But people find it hard, to find these great pieces of innovation.

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