Could insects, spiders, and their ilk have something to tell us about ourselves? That is the question implicit in Floating Figures, a collection of photographs taken—and mused upon in mini-essays—by writer and photographer Matthew Westbrook. Replete with allusions to myth, literature, and philosophy and grounded in natural history, this arthropodic bestiary is, in spirit, an elegiac poem to a world on the brink of climate change—one in which, when the bell tolls for even the smallest creature, it tolls for us all.