EPHEMERAL WEBS IN PUBLIC PLACES
												
								
								
								
				
				
      Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 13:49. 
  
     
Titled "Arachne Weaves Her Web", this imaginative low tech installation by Debbie Apple-Presser is testing viewers.    
  
Spun between two old oak trees in a little park which sits in the middle of the Horseshoe Lake in Shaker Heights, the web is exposed to everyone.    What will it catch?  Fragile, sparkling - will someone be enticed to sweep the cobweb away?     
  
The vulnerability of the installation puts the manners of visitors on show.   
  
Will some juvenile “moth” ride through it on a bike at dusk tonight?   
  
Webs are said to be stronger than steel – can the civic space resist testing its brute strength? 
   
      
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