Project Three: Poetic Metamorphosis

For project three we were tasked with creating paper sculptures based on readings from Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis as well as an excerpt from  Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space. 

Bed

For the bed I decided to go with a very minimalistic
look. I chose this style because the reading implied
to me that the family was not in a position to afford
overly ornate pieces of furniture. The black frame
accentuates the color of the bedspread and pillow.

Dresser

The dresser also follows the minimalistic theme. It
is essentially based off of the readings description of
trying to go to the dresser as a bug and being unable
to support oneself upon it. This made me think of an
extremely smooth and simple design, which I feel
represents the dresser in The Metamorphosis. It is
also black to match the bedframe and the darkness
implied by the situation described.

Bug

It is not far into the reading that we find out our main
character Gregor has gone to bed only to wake up as a bug.
The reading repeatedly describes the problems posed
to a bug waking up on its back and trying to roll out
of a bed. The spindly legs that go every way but where
intended, the inability to tilt ones head, and a lack of
abdominal flexibility. To recreate these issues I used
pointy triangle legs that offer little to no support. The
body is also a rigid triangle to demonstrate a lack of
flexibility. The wings and antennae are modeled off
of common cockroaches, which is immediately what
came to mind during the description of flailing legs
while laying down.