I found this piece extremely interesting. When I looked at it, I immediately saw crocheted doilies and cob webs. Crocheting doilies is a traditional duty of women, as is dusting, the removal of cob webs, setting the table, and cooking the meals. This piece could represent the slow death of women (wives), caught in the trap (cob web) of marriage with all of the associated duties. The individual strands of the web could be the repetitive motions women perform in traditional roles. You sweep the floor, do the shopping, laundry and cook the meals, just to do the exact same duties again the next day. These roles slowly suck the life from them as they wait for the spider's poison to end the pain. I think the spider would have to be the societal norms that restrict women to these roles in places like Sri Lanka, where the artist is from.
It has me thinking about all that life has to offer and all of the lost potential in societies where women do not have a choice, their plot in life is predetermined by society.
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