One... Spider Taking Over The City!

One… Spider Taking Over The City!

24 January 2008By Zhu 22 Comments

My English chum, Graham, is currently hosting a Photo hunt at One Man’s Travel Blog. The theme of the month is “One” and here is… one major threat to the city of Ottawa, the one thing that could overthrow the Parliament — one big spider!

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This sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (oh, yes, it is a sculpture by the way!) can be found downtown Ottawa, right by the National Gallerie of Canada. In the distance, you can see the Byward market, the Château Laurier and the US Embassy. Standing at 30 feet tall, the mother of all spider, Maman, is cast in bronze and has a sac of white marble eggs in her belly. Yes, you get used to walk by even if you’re not a big spider fan! I don’t even mind standing under it…

I took this picture last week: notice the blue sky, a sure sign of extremely cold weather here in Canada. It was about — 20C that day. I choose this shot because I liked the idea of one small arachnid everyone hates in a position to take over a city. Doesn’t it feel that way, viewed from this angle? Okay, my interpretation of “one” is a bit loose… I admit it!

One spider to rule them all…

22 Comments »

Attin said:

Its reall spider?
But that is a terribly large spider. I did not like this, because its very harm.

# 22 February 2008 at 1:06 am

Deadpoolite said:

“Spiderman. spiderman does whatever a spider can, spins a web any size catches thieves just like flies…”. Hey, wait a minute this post isn’t about Spiderman but about a huge Spider depicting sculpture in Canada!!! Damn, damn, damn, I knew all those comic book excesses of old and present would eventually catch up with me:).

Pretty dominating figure that Spider and I am sure it creeps out some people over there:)

Great picture as always!

Later.

# 30 January 2008 at 4:58 am