Weaving Light Series The Weaving Light Series is a several years exploration of multibeam refraction. All images have been taken in collaboration with nature in my garden. I have explored the light throughout the year, in various weather conditions and how it moves through various seed filaments, nests, webs, vegetable fibers and feathers in my garden. Species that I have worked with in collaboration include Caterpillars, including Malacosoma americium, Orchard Spiders Leucauge venusta, Common House Spiders Parasteatoda tepidariorum, Golden-silk Orbweaver Nephila clavipes, Black and Yellow “ Banana” Garden Spiders Argiope aurantia, Arboreal Orbweavers Neoscona crucifera, Spiny-backed Orbweavers Gasteracantha cancriformis, Bowl and Doily Spiders or what I call “Fairy Pocket Spiders” Frontinella communis, Funnel Weaver Spiders, Grass Spiders Agelenopsis and both Black Widows Latrodectus and Brown Widows Lactrodectus geometrics both of which though venomous are also in our woods. It is my hope that by calling attention to the amazing qualities of these much maligned and feared but intensely industrious and creative beings and their creations as they interact with light that I can help to ease understanding of the tiniest creatures and other aspects of the smallest most overlooked spaces on the planet starting with the area outside my very own door. -Carrie Lee Pierson Schwartz |
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