Consecration of Kafka

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Date : 2017

Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is that kind of book you do not forget easily.
The peculiar story of Gregor Samsa has a kind of nightmarish effect on us making us feel very uncomfortable. That same disturbing feeling, however, brings a lot of ideas for absurd and amazing projects.
Mr Samsa woke up one day and notice something odd about himself. His torso and legs looked like a filthy insect.
It is visually curious to imagine the fusion man-insect, we imagine him like in the movie “the Fly”. 
Beyond that, it is also interesting the symbolic way and how someone change and how the other people react to that transformation.

In the book, the character end up dead and we decided to take his body and raise him up to the skies, just like the apotheosis of the greek heroes or christian tradition.
We can observe him now as an almighty God with a big halo/crown, embracing the mankind (suggested by the position of his arms)

From his head we see the rays aimed to the sigil of god (ameth) with a symbol of fertility inside, that can be seen as a symbol of balance of the Earth.
Besides his grotesque figures, he transcends any concept of good or evil, he is whole.

His limbs affirm his insect attributes, but in some cultures or mythologies, the many limbed features are described as the motion of the movements and the active energy flowing.
In “Consecration of Kafka” is also see these movements, taking the Fire from above to manifest on below. He converts ethereal and abstract energy into physical expression, as an act of creation.
The triple head can show his omnipotence and it is linked to many medieval representations of god as father, son and holy spirit, all together in same person.

“Monstrous Birth” detail - form: The Book of Miracles, 1552.

His throne made with two large triangles gives a sense of equilibrium. One is coming from the Earth, represented by the serpents as symbols of fertility. The other one spreads to the Universe.
Both seem to find a balanced exchange of energy, converging at the figure’s bellybutton, the center of the operations.

Wake up like this

“Kali” - Lithograph Print- Raja Ravi Varma, late 19th century.
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