Donna Haraway’s concept of ‘Tentacular Thinking’, the transcending of binary modes of thought through diverse networks, was the framework through which I examine the Greek myth of Arachne, the first spider. Once a great weaver, Arachne was punished by Athena for speaking against the gods, especially Zeus who abused his power to rape mortal women, representing a system of oppression within a masculinist society that is familiar to us to this day. I am reimagining Arachne as an early feminist who knows her role in society and her power in her craft, amalgamating the physicality of her metamorphosis with the image of the queer body as a starting point for my designs.

Here, Arakhne becomes a subversive political entity that fluctuates between person and animal, reality and fiction, mortal and divine, mainstream and underground.