People who hear about what Nina does every Monday in a small back room on the third floor of the Field tend to call it “spider porn.” After I watched her image Sougambus bostoniensis, Diplocentria bidentata and Diplocentria rectangulata a few weeks ago, I’d say that they’re right—right, that is, assuming that the process of making adult films is also exhausting, frustrating, meticulous, and fraught with tremendous difficulty, punctuated by the occasional moment of transcendence.
