{"id":10492,"date":"2024-08-19T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/?p=10492"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:27:59","slug":"maria-fernanda-cardosos-detailed-photos-explore-the-vibrant-world-of-tiny-maratus-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/maria-fernanda-cardosos-detailed-photos-explore-the-vibrant-world-of-tiny-maratus-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Fernanda Cardoso&#8217;s detailed photos explore the vibrant world of tiny maratus spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10485 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-300x164.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-300x164.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-1024x559.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-768x419.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-1536x839.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-220x120.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-583x318.jpeg 583w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom-1166x637.jpeg 1166w, https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Design-bloom.jpeg 1831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In her Spiders of Paradise project nature-focused artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso presents a highly detailed photographic journey into the world of the tiny Australian Maratus spider. Measuring less than 5 millimeters, these insects are renowned for their unique, brightly-colored abdomens, which play a crucial role in their elaborate mating rituals. Through a series of large-scale photographs, Cardoso captures the multi-colored patterns of various Maratus species, presenting them as individual portraits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Maratus spiders of Australia are the most colorful, flamboyant, sexy, and charming spiders on the planet. I think if paradise existed, it would be inhabited by beautiful creatures such as these,\u2019 shares the artist. \u2018Their use of color, gesture, sound, and movement makes them (in my opinion) amongst the most sophisticated visual and performing artists in the world. They are also the smallest performers I know of\u2014on average about 4-6mm in size, smaller than a grain of rice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/art\/maria-fernanda-cardoso-detailed-photos-vibrant-world-tiny-maratus-spiders-07-30-2024\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her Spiders of Paradise project nature-focused artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso presents a highly detailed photographic journey into the world of the tiny Australian Maratus spider. Measuring less than 5 millimeters, these insects are renowned for their unique, brightly-colored abdomens, which play a crucial role in their elaborate mating rituals. &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/maria-fernanda-cardosos-detailed-photos-explore-the-vibrant-world-of-tiny-maratus-spiders\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariafernandacardoso.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}