Nina Katchadourian – Spider Webs

I found her work very intriguing as she used her own spider web repair kit and made art out of fixing webs. I like how she has used found webs to create something beautiful out of something normally seen as unimportant. Webs are normally seen as something to be rid of but she has done the opposite, she has chosen to celebrate them.

When looking for around our given location I searched for spider webs but found branches covered in an old spider web which created an interesting image.

Upon first glance it looks like a plain piece of pine branch but the web entwined within gives it more depth in its detail.

I was also inspired by Edward Weston’s ‘Pepper’ 1930 images and Meret Oppenheim ‘My Nursemaid’ 1936. I liked how their objects were polysemic. How the images are seen depends on how you look at them and your context.

Edward Weston Pepper No. 30 1930

This is a photo of a pepper but can be mistaken for a person. I found this approach to found objects interesting as it emphasized how the objects I find on’t have to be what they are but what they can look like.

I used this concept with a wrapper I found. I tried to make it both seem like a normal wrapper and also a piece of origami. But I found it difficult to shape a tiny piece of paper but I liked the idea.

I created a home studio by using a plain white sheet of paper as a backdrop and used an adjustable table lamp as the light source.

Contact Sheets:

I found numerous wrappers on the ground and I experimented with scrunching them up and dropping them . This created different shapes and some looked like origami.  I found that using the flash on my camera really brought the shapes out.