These "spiders" are a series of experimental assemblages created through a process of handstorming.
I intended to create work inspired by Donna Harraway's notion of the "Cthulucene"- a proposed epoch which is:





I explored materials tactiley, combining elements gathered through my personal scavenging process and engineering skeletons in response to the sway and gravity of the objects used.
The result is a series of tentacular, insectlike creatures who come from an imaginary realm. Through this process, I wanted to push myself to consider the world these beings might inhabit, and the kind of generative possibilities their cyborg forms provoke.

“made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practises of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen – yet” (Haraway, 2016).

This used to be another creature's home

Defunct currency

This one moves when sound vibrations come through the speaker

Thinking about harmony

Is the noise of the bells to attract or repel?

How does it move?

While the process for creating this series was extremely generative, I think the results reflect interesting quirks- The evolutionary trend of Carcinisation for example (The convergent evolution of several non-crab crustaceans into crabs).

As we plow into a future increasingly shaped by human-driven evolutions of the environment and its inhabitants, what will the outcomes look like? Is there a form, or destination that all life inevitably tends towards? If humans have entered unmapped territory in terms of a species' arc, would we be wiser to take some hints from the path of our non human counterparts?

Can we begin to form mutualistic relationships with non-human, or non animal actors; rather than parisitic ones?