Metamorphosis

This was for a University project. We had to do an illustration to go along with a newspaper article. (Gregor revisited, by Nadine Gordimer, the Guardian newspaper - found here)The article was about a woman who found a roach trapped in her typewriter. She had been reading Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis; about a man who had turned into a giant insect. The woman felt that maybe she had willed the roach into existence. I based the picture on the following quote; 'Is there another kind of metamorphosis, you don't wake up to find yourself transformed into another species ... but the imagining of such a being can create one ... can imagination summon such a live being to come on out of the woodwork and manifest itself?' I Spent many an hour just sat there drawing roaches for the research sheets *shudders* never again. (April 2005)