"The Tsuchigumo were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived in the Japanese Alps until at least the Asuka period. The name means "ground spider", likely due to perceived physical traits that were later exaggerated or embellished. A spider-limbed monster of the same name appears in some Japanese folktales, which possibly were mythical retellings of battles against these peoples. According to Japanese History, Japanese people used "Tsuchigumo" as a derogatory term for bandits and thieves, akin to the Tsuchigumo that lived under the ground and in caves."

read the whole article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuchigumo

anyway this artwork is supposed to depict a horrifying dream i had last year. i have let's say... a bit of aracnophobia, if i am supposed to clean a place that has dead bugs and mostly dead spiders and spiderwebs i start to scratch my body because i feel like there's spiders coming onto me. actually spiders do dig my bathroom because for like almost 5 times big furry black ones showed in my bathroom and they can stay for hours or the whole night in the same position in the end of my bathtub, i'm never capable of killing them instead i always scream for my mom because i get too horrified.
ok, going back to my dream, i dreamt that there was this huge (bigger than the ones in my bathtub) white/transparent spider crawling next to me above my pillow while i was sleeping all i remember is standing and looking at my bed i wasn't capable to distinguish a dream from reality, i got so scared that i even moved my bed searching for the spider because to me it really had happened. i was so horrified that i had to go to the other room to sleep and i had to turn the tv on and even so i was still scared and looking around lol.

photography + digital painting + 3d.