Yeah, I think I’ll stick with my life giving scarab overlord. What’s Maman really going to do for me? Probably lay eggs in my head…
Akira MacKenziesays
Didn’t Johnny Quest have to fight that thing?
Colin Jsays
I saw her in Bilbao earlier this year. That’s the thing about spiders – there’s never just one. Or is that mice?
They had Puppy in Bilbao as well. I remember years ago (20 years ago?) when they had a version of Puppy outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
There’s a Louise Bourgeois exhibit at the Rijksmuseum sculpture garden through November, if you’re near Amsterdam.
diannesays
I’m now picturing you with an Indiana Jones hat yelling, “It belongs in my yard!” to a group of confused Canadians.
Just an Organic Regular Expressionsays
Louise Bourgeois is a pretty prolific sculptor, apparently; I’ve seen her spiders at MOMA in NYC and at SFMOMA as well. Here’s a pic of the SFMOMA installation.
That’s “Maman” (“Mother”), and she’s very impressive in person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculpture)
She also appears in the Denis Villeneuve movie “Enemy”, looming over Toronto:
https://taylorholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/enemy-movie-explained-1.jpg
Don’t mess with Maman.
Her daughter is pretty cool too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkeX28qiXKI
Yeah, I think I’ll stick with my life giving scarab overlord. What’s Maman really going to do for me? Probably lay eggs in my head…
Didn’t Johnny Quest have to fight that thing?
I saw her in Bilbao earlier this year. That’s the thing about spiders – there’s never just one. Or is that mice?
They had Puppy in Bilbao as well. I remember years ago (20 years ago?) when they had a version of Puppy outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
They are everywhere
https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/webres/Image/Pappajohn%20Sculpture%20Park/Bourgeois.jpg
And your wife will say what?
@4: Johnny Quest?! OMG. Race Bannon Fans Unite!
wajim @ 8
Yeah, Race was cool, but I love a certain blonde, frosted, murder-cake a lot more.
[Akira, your link yields a 404]
There’s a Louise Bourgeois exhibit at the Rijksmuseum sculpture garden through November, if you’re near Amsterdam.
I’m now picturing you with an Indiana Jones hat yelling, “It belongs in my yard!” to a group of confused Canadians.
Louise Bourgeois is a pretty prolific sculptor, apparently; I’ve seen her spiders at MOMA in NYC and at SFMOMA as well. Here’s a pic of the SFMOMA installation.
You could see if David Fambrough in Reno, NV would be willing to make you one of these: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12527
John Morales @10 – just remove the errant ” at the end of the url.
What poppyhead really wants is La Princesse, A 50 Foot Spider… (from 2008, but still around, e.g., (from 2018), A Giant Mechanical Minotaur and Enormous Spider Invade the Streets of Toulouse, France for Three Days).
Vancouver’s Science World has mine: https://media2.trover.com/T/5564cd18ae8d8a725b01f143/fixedw_large_4x.jpg
It was even more spider friendly in Ottawa two years ago when we had a giant robot spider wake up on top of our oldest cathedral:
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/kumo-the-spider-descends-from-notre-dame-cathedral-to-kick-off-la-machine
…and then wandered around town until doing battle with a giant robot dragon:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/31/16071696/la-machine-ottowa-kumo-long-ma-robot-spider-dragon
You may also like this one, in the Fred Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, in Grand Rapids, MI.
https://www.meijergardens.org/explore/spider/