Crouching Spider, Beacon, NY

Louise Bourgeois' Crouching Spider sculpture at Dia:Beacon.

The sculpture carries biographical overtones as the spider is a weaver, just as Bourgeois was when she was a child working in her family's tapestry repair business. In Bourgeois' lexicon, the spider also represents the female protector as well a predator, and carries sexual overtones to it as well.

DSC_9634, 9635, 9636 smc sepia

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Ed_Z says:

ooo... creepy... the sepia tone definitely sets the mood!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

MAYANSUN says:

Hi...I took the liberty and used your great Photograph here in one of my Photo Manipulations....Weaver

....Hope you like it...Thanks!
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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