Arthropoda takes its cue from The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot, which appeared in six installments between 1844 and 1846 and is generally regarded as the first book illustrated with original photographic prints for a broad readership. The title and the photographic process Talbot developed have a requisite relevance to the work of Harold Strak, in which the present and the past are closely linked. Text by Flip Bool.