La Maman de Louise

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She does not descend—
her silence taller than grief,
woven from waiting.

A towering spider looms above a single human by the sea. The air is still. The legs stretch across the sky like ancient beams, the orb aged and held with memory. It's not menace but presence, maternal and estranged, standing in the quiet between love and fear.

Artistic statement: The piece channels Bourgeois’ myth of the spider-mother into a quiet monument. It blends surrealism with a minimalist melancholy. Time is suspended. The viewer does not look at the spider, but up into the unresolved shape of memory, scale, and reverence.

Influencing artists:
Louise Bourgeois, Giorgio de Chirico, Käthe Kollwitz, Leonora Carrington, Andrei Tarkovsky
Bourgeois is the core, echoing in every limb. de Chirico brings stillness and scale. Kollwitz offers the moral weight of presence. Carrington frames the spider as surreal archetype. Tarkovsky inspires the silence, the air, the waiting.

Tags: #aiart #maternal #monumental #surrealism #existential #haunting #deepdreamgenerator

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