| 14 Sep 2013, 11:06. Off the Camino sightseeing in Bilbao at the Guggenheim Museum, I stood under Louise Bourgeois’s 30-foot-high sculpture Maman depicting a female spider carrying eggs. Bourgeois wrote of the sculpture: “The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. … Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.” |
