SPIDER

The spider belongs to the phylum Arthropoda and the order Arachnoid. Although her body is divided into three parts, she is not an insect, as she breathes with lungs, has eight legs instead of six, and has no wings. Spiders weave webs to trap insects, which are their main food. To paralyze or kill their prey, they pour their poison with the hornets. A few species are dangerous to humans, such as the tarantula and the black widow, whose venom causes nerve paralysis and even death. The spider, then, is the animal that moves along the roads it carves. Like us. Spider, web, threat, trap. You get involved intentionally or unintentionally and it becomes a nightmare. Or an adventure. Or both. Light succeeds darkness but the web is always around you – and the spider ever present. Many times you think that you have escaped the trap, that the threat that came from the outside world no longer exists because you repelled it. It probably never occurred to you that the web might have been your creation. Like the spider. A situation cut and sewn to serve all that you fear, that you hope for, that you dream of. Looking at it from a distance you understand that every creature caught in the web has two options: to react or to give up. And that in both, the winner will be the spider. Within this claustrophobic context, with a clear or vague threat constantly lurking in the corner, a trapped soul makes its last convulsive movements before the web absorbs it and relieves it of its agony. Through the mazes created by a menacing web and its creator, a frozen spider, an agonizing tale unfolds, a visual adventure that leads to the heart of the monster we all hide but also admire: the monster that is the greatest threat but also the inevitable end.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE CREATORS Kostas Papagiannakis was born in Athens in 1969. As a creative advertising manager, he has been awarded at the Greek Advertising Festival, as well as at many international ones. His books "Gods 2" and "A popular song might have been better" are also published by OKSY publications. Paris Koutsikos was born in 1967, he is a graphic designer and artistic director of OXY publications.