Eighteen of my latest found object assemblages will be on display and (most) for sale at the Oliver Center for the Arts July 28 - September 8, 2017 as part of an exhibition, "Bugs, Birds and Beasts." Here's one of the many spiders.
Araneus Saevus: Bennington
$175
Assemblage
Bennington is made from a Rockingham style ceramic doorknob, possibly from Bennington, VT, which was produced sometime in the mid-19th century. She has faux fur hair and features vintage leather button eyes and legs fashioned from wire and vintage jewelry bits.
This tiny, eight-legged engineer builds spiral, wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. ("Orb" originally meant "circular", and the name stuck.) Some orb weavers are semi-social and live in communal webs. In 2009, workers at a Baltimore wastewater treatment plant discovered over 100 million orb weaver spiders, living in a community that managed to spin a phenomenal web that covered some four acres of a building with spider densities in some areas reaching 35,176 spiders per cubic meter.
Feeling a little arachnophobic? No worries—the orb spider bite is low risk (not toxic) to humans. They are a non-aggressive group of spiders, and seldom bite.
Dimensions: 4”x8”x8”
Araneus Saevus: Bennington
$175
Assemblage
Bennington is made from a Rockingham style ceramic doorknob, possibly from Bennington, VT, which was produced sometime in the mid-19th century. She has faux fur hair and features vintage leather button eyes and legs fashioned from wire and vintage jewelry bits.
This tiny, eight-legged engineer builds spiral, wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. ("Orb" originally meant "circular", and the name stuck.) Some orb weavers are semi-social and live in communal webs. In 2009, workers at a Baltimore wastewater treatment plant discovered over 100 million orb weaver spiders, living in a community that managed to spin a phenomenal web that covered some four acres of a building with spider densities in some areas reaching 35,176 spiders per cubic meter.
Feeling a little arachnophobic? No worries—the orb spider bite is low risk (not toxic) to humans. They are a non-aggressive group of spiders, and seldom bite.
Dimensions: 4”x8”x8”
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