• In this image I wanted to show how Arachne is cursed indefinitely by having her tied in place with her webbed hair. She is sitting on a pile of skulls which represents her victims. She is eternally faced with the crimes she has committed, yet she cannot stop. 

• I've been wanting to do a Halloween themed shoot for the longest time so I'm glad I was finally able to! Oddly enough, I actually got the idea of doing Arachne from watching a documentary on female serial killers (specifically "black widows"). I wanted to combine the imagery of Arachne's mythology with the lore of women killers from the 19th century.

• The skulls were all made by me with paper mache, and then manipulated in photoshop to look more realistic. The hair is hand painted.

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