Niina Katchadourian - 'Mended Spidersweb'

The work of Niina Katchadourian titled 'Mended Spidersweb' I find extremely interesting.
It demonstrates one of many ways in which interaction between the photographer and the environment occurs. Katchadourian has interfered with the environment by repairing spiders webs with bright red (ironically unnatural, man made product) thread and later photographs the newly repaired web. 
Accompanying this piece of work is a video, 'Gift/Gift'. 11 minutes in duration. It illustrates the process and shows Katchadourian inserting letters which spell out the word "gift" on the webs. 
Additionally it shows a spider battling with the tool being used to form the reconstruction on the web in an attempt to retain full control of the web and inevitably losing. Later the letters are removed and the web reformed in the natural way producing a naturally formed web.

I think of this work in relation to mine as for my project I am considering interacting with the environment and using tools such as a jet was and/or shoe polish act in order to physically alter the appearance of the street.

"GIFT/GIFT

STILL FROM VIDEO 11-minute video, 1998

This video was made parallel to the Mended Spiderweb series in Finland, summer 1998. Among a collection of old books in the house on the island, I found Kom Bara Lite Närmare ("Just Come a Little Closer"), an illustrated Swedish nature book from the 1950s. In a chapter on spiders it described the spider's sometime habit of using its thread as wrapping paper to package its dead prey and present it to another spider. From this came the idea for the 10-minute video "GIFT/GIFT" (the word, pronounced in Swedish, means "poison"). Small letters made of thread spell out the word one letter at a time in the spiderweb. A particularly aggressive spider battles a pair of persistent tweezers for control of the web. The tweezers manage, with great difficulty and damage to the web, to insert the letters. The spider returns, picks out the letters in order, and makes a few repairs before settling back into the web where it was to begin with."