#145: Archival Rear Window Spider (#5 in Hitchcock series)

Okay, Rear Window is pretty much the best Alfred Hitchcock movie ever. Bored and recovering from a broken leg, Jeff begins nonchalantly observing his neighbors in the building across the courtyard, and then things get interesting when he notices that one neighbor's wife appears to be missing.

I felt that the body of this spider needed to be the most familiar image from this movie--the view from James Stewart's window. So I constructed a miniature watercolor pencil sketch of the apartment complex, with Raymond Burr's light turned out, and sandwiched it between two pieces of microscope glass that I framed with copper foil tape and painted. The head and "eyes" of the spider are a pair of binoculars. The color choices of brick and green were chosen to represent summer. There is, after all, a heat wave in this small community, and it's only because the neighbors' windows are open that there's anything interesting for the main character to observe.

Materials: watercolor on paper, microscope slide glass, copper foil tape, eye pin, binoculars charm, brick red and light green bugle beads, shiny reddish-copper and light green seed beads, rusted wire