Other Geometries

HD video, white oak

species: Deinopis spinosa, Hogna lenta, Latrodectus geometricus, Physocyclus sp., Stegodyphus dumicola, Trichonephila clavipes

Other Geometries is an ongoing project with behavioral ecologist Nick Keiser that asks what arachnocentric space might feel like. It derives a taxonomy of seven geometries — overhang, thicket, warren, shaft, loom, alcove, and cliff — from the ways particular spider species use space. These geometries are rendered as spider-scale environments, inhabited by their corresponding species, and are reconstructed, in forthcoming iterations, at human scale for human bodies to navigate.