The picture I’ve posted here are my tools. This is my workstation where the wax is melted and from which an angel is born.
These tools are my pen and paper that allow me to step into Kafka’s world for a split second and create my own version of The Metamorphosis.
met·a·mor·pho·sis
1. A transformation, as by magic or sorcery.
2. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function. [1]
These, however, are not the only tools that bring on transformation.
There are further tools, as in this particular case.
The tool was Phil Hill’s camera. Coupled with his vision he took this photograph and changed the character of the same reality.
Yes, this is my messy workstation; but this photograph on its own is art.
Phil has allowed a further metamorphosis to occur; by documenting his vision on celluloid he has turned a potentially unattractive image into a beautiful one.
When art transforms itself from one medium to another because someone else had the vision…
Seeing further than the eye could, Phil recognized beauty in the mess I had left behind after creating an angel and took this wonderful photograph.
Thank you for that!
Even people undergo transformations. It is human nature to seek further, to learn and as a result to change.
As an artist I have gone from an obsession with exterior beauty and perfection of form to a passion for interior beauty, with all its imperfections included (as it is perhaps these… the very things that make us special and unique).
I haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly the moment when the shift occurred and I understood that looking on the inside could be not only challenging and interesting, but life changing.
I suppose one could say that I have undergone a metamorphosis and my new idée fixe is all about the perfection in imperfection, about love and about life and the beauty hidden therein.
By Boky and Blake
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/metamorphosis