Poisonous Spider, 170x180cm, Photograph, Wang Qingsong, 2005

For “Poisonous Spider”, I created a huge spider net (diameter 16 meters) out of barbed wires hinting at the danger and attraction of our fascination with consumer products. The barbed-wire web can stick on its web a lot of worms, insects for their food. Nowadays in this commercial world, everyone is like a spider who feeds himself with a variety of daily used stuff and some garbage like what I collect over the last several months.