one of my favorite pictures from when I went to Europe in 2008 was me running from a giant metal spider outside of The Louvre in Paris.
My travel companion Lori persuaded me to do it after a short discussion of “can we walk on the grass?” It was the first real tour day of Paris, and it was at the very beginning, before we found out The Louvre was closed.
Anyway, the reason I’m posting all of this is I found out via Ryan Adams (really, I’m not obsessed, I just clicked on a link of someone’s FB or something, and then he had posted a link with a picture of a giant spider like in the picture) that the artist responsible for sculpting the spiders (which are placed around the world), Louise Bourgeois, died last week. She was 98! She was known as the Spiderwoman. Imagine that.