Introduction: What is that cover?

The Still Life Painter, by Swedish painter Carl Larsson. He was also an interior designer and worked within the turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement.

The back cover is Emilie Preyer’s Still Life of Fruit, modified by me to transition from old photo to dynamic color. What’s the fly doing? It’s waiting for the spider.

I found both of them on Wikimedia Commons.