The Spider In Tokyo

Wearing my  Dansko womens shoes and admiring the Maman The Spider Sculpture @ Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, one has gotta wonder.. what it meant.. and how can one justify .. the amount spent on this sculpture.  Sure it was awesome to look at .. and it does give you a sore eye.. but what else.. i hear you asking.  So here is the explanation i found.  And if you are up in Japan, Tokyo.. you  have to go .. take a look.

“Maman” was designed in 1999 and cast in 2003. It’s made of bronze except for the white marble eggs suspended under her belly. The sculpture stands 10 meters tall and weighs 11,000 kg. That’s got to make it the mother lode of mother odes.

It was Minoru Mori himself, the developer of Roppongi Hills, who brought “Maman” to Tokyo. On a trip to London in 2000, Mr. Mori spotted an earlier casting of the sculpture at the opening of the Tate Modern and realized it was just what he was looking for.

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