Spiders: real and unreal

Spiders: real and unreal

The gigantic spider sculpture Maman by Louise Bourgeois: this is the version outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and a child’s cuddly toy in the form of a tarantula, lost in a road; the sculpture is meant to be maternal, and the toy presumably comforting.

In contrast, a pair of real spiders, female and a much smaller male.