Gregor's Room
Upon reading Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis , I was motivated to capture the dilapidated and melancholy feeling that Gregor's room possessed. In order to give the furniture a worn in feel, I opted to make and use paper pulp to form all of the furniture. In order to give the furniture a worn in feeling, I dyed the paper pulp prior to molding it to produce an inconsistent coloring that would occur as a result of being used over time. For the blanket, I could not use paper pulp to capture the same feel, so I opted to use a sheet of paper that I painted with ink, then spilled water on to produce a stained and used appearance. I kept everything relatively miniature in scale due to the crammed feeling that Gregor experienced within his bug body, and in his room.
