Wooden Box With Lid – Black Widow

Wooden box with lid

Before I made this wooden box with lid I made more small decorative boxes of this model boxes before.

Whether or not belonging to a particular subject  like:

Eye Lash       "F”     or “M” 

All these boxes are painted with an abstract pattern because they were expressing a broader subject.

In this case I wanted to be more specific.

Because of the length of the legs underneath the box I got the association with a spider.: small body and long legs.

Black Widow

I assume that one of the best known names of a spider in the world is that of the Black Widow. So this wooden box had to become expressing the image of what is known a dangerous spider, at least  for her lovers.

If she gets the chance she eats the male after the copulation. It seems cruel, but it’s nature that tells her to do her utmost to provide offspring. And the “father” of the offspring is also nutritious food who can help her accomplishing her task.

So maybe this adjusts your notion about the Black Widow a little bit of being the spider just sitting in her cobweb waiting for food and kill her lovers.

When arthropods are pitch-black they can be very color full in the sunlight.

That is the reason I covered the outside of this decorative wooden box with lid with an oxide metal foil. Depending the light it will be more or less color full.
The inside of this unique wooden box is a reversed version of a cobweb, black spider web threads on an aluminium foil background.

wooden box with lid:
Total size                                      size box
With: 34 cm                                 With: 29 cm
Height: 103 cm                            Height: 18 cm
Depth: 26 cm                               Depth: 22 cm

Box made of 18 mm thick pine wood
Legs made of 44 – 44 mm thick pine beams, long 93 cm
One wooden egg 6 cm
2 Brass hinges
Water based black paint
Water based clear coat