Handspun
2025
Bamboo double waffle weave
Salvaged sticks
Leather cord
AVL Dobby
This work engages the spider as a symbol of innate intelligence, drawing a conceptual line between the instinctive production of the web and human textile labor. By echoing the structural tension of the spider’s web, the interplay of force, fragility, and form, the piece situates weaving as a practice that transcends mere function. The web is not merely a utilitarian structure but a complex, intentional design, a biomaterial expression of care, adaptability, and spatial logic. In aligning the spider’s silk-spinning with the movement of the human hand and the shuttle, the work positions craft as a shared biological and aesthetic impulse. It foregrounds the act of making as both survival strategy and creative agency, questioning the relationship between instinct, labor, and the intelligence embedded in material processes. Ultimately, the piece frames textile practice as a form of knowledge production that is both ancestral and interspecies.
