Village of Spiders

This process explores building the new with broken pieces of the old, and expanding our imagination of what's possible through darkness as we embrace and tend to our grief like a garden in the web of the 21st century. It brings to life the question; how are we repurposing things that hurt us and regenerating life-supporting systems?

Bee Guzman-Elliott takes the same black pipes from a previous pipeline-body-extension-piece that plugged into their own body in 6 different places, and goes on to regenerate them into a 20ft long, 10ft high web trellis. The pipes were broken apart, reconstructed, words like “TAR SANDS OIL” and “FRACKED ‘NATURAL’ GAS” painted over, and were suspended in air through the weaving of a web with garden twine and two large arches above the soil. Sanditas, scarlet runner beans, calendulas, cosmos, and summer squash all climb around and through the reclaimed pipes as they remind us of the many ways we can, and still are, weaving possibilities through the web.

As for the other half of the web? It lives in all we cannot see… weaving throughout the soil, mycelium, and deep within the landscapes of our own bodies.