Angela White received her MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and BFA in Ceramics from the University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, Ohio. She was a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in 2005. She has exhibited at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA, Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, and Kim Foster Gallery in New York, NY. Her work was included in an exhibition curated by Christian Marclay at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. She was also part of the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio. I begin with a garden, planting tomatoes, raspberries, sunflowers, strawberries, scarlet runner beans and other Pacific Northwestern crops--creating an orb weaver habitat. Orb weavers like the shelter and protection of bamboo. So I make all of my trellises out of it. By late July, my garden is home to 20-to-24 orb weavers. In August, I begin walking the garden in the early morning with a head lantern, learning where the orb Weaver's are living and what they are spinning. Mid-August, I begin gathering their webs. So long as they are safe and well-fed, orb weavers stay in the same spot throughout the season, allowing me to grow familiar with them and their work. I sculpt my days in dialogue with a distant species. I decenter the human, I question human exceptionalism, I work as a woman with a species I was told as a girl I ought to fear, a species pest-control agencies offer to exterminate for me, a species of kindred mothers, hunters and makers. In traditions of natural science illustration and feminist science studies, I document the ephemeral silk-works of orb weavers on the perennial material of clay. Sometimes, I think the resulting objects are bound for a dystopian future of ecological collapse and global extinction. Amid the ruins, sacred shards remain. Other times, I think I am from a utopian future. I came back in time to help make it come true. I am prefiguring it now by loving spiders.