When I did Emily’s Spider, I spent days drawing spiders. I drew lots and lots of spiders. When I was done, three of them stood out:
When I looked again, I knew who they were: Emily, the spider, and me.
Tags: Emily Dickinson, spiders
When I did Emily’s Spider, I spent days drawing spiders. I drew lots and lots of spiders. When I was done, three of them stood out:
When I looked again, I knew who they were: Emily, the spider, and me.
Tags: Emily Dickinson, spiders
I love the spiders…..they look very friendly to me….they’re “nice” spiders….the kind you’d like to have as special pals. I’d sit on a tuffet with any of these spiders…
Since, in real life, spiders are ferocious predators, Emily and her kin are truly anthropomorphic.
I knew I could count on Horace to flush me out from my mild vegetarian exterior.
Emily, the spider and you — now to get all tangled up in a web!
All are very nice. I find the lowermost spider the friendliest – smaller eyes, and two are reassuringly more eye-like than the others. Also, I like its perspective best. And the thick legs with fewer joints. Though the mandibles on the second are more aesthetically pleasing and more convincingly mandibular.
Predators have a certain pragmatic, honest ruthlessness about their natural interactions, which I can admire. But apparently at least one species can be vegetarian:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35121/title/Vegetarian_spider