Spider
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/alicekin"
title="Alice Kin"
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Alice Kin
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2025
Each month I studied a plant, observed, ruminated, and collected samples for the Lab, making inks, lakes, pigments.
This series of small paintings is called ‘Seeing Our Unseen Friends’ - beginning with a ritual in the woods asking Spirits of the Woods to safely show themselves in the play of ink on paper.
Spider has balance, fingers on the pulse, a sensory knowing what is to come… a spider sense perhaps. You may find proximity a bit sticky, one limb or another caught in a web.
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