Imago
BA Art Warm-Up – Foundation Course
2022
semester
IMAGO
Destruct&transformation
In the creation of this project, I was strongly influenced by the metamorphosis a caterpillar
undergoes to eventually become a butterfly.
The caterpillar evolves and gains a size that goes beyond the space of its skin. It grows out of it
and must eventually destroy it. The skin thus also represents a space of protection that makes
the transformation possible in order to then be destroyed by it. The destruction of this skin is a
brutal and extremely uncomfortable process, but it is necessary in order to follow one’s own
evolution. The moment of destruction is followed by a scenario that resembles a rebirth. Out of
the old a new sphere is being created. The same life and yet all at once new and strange. The
parts that exploded with the previous destruction get once again collected together. Some got
finally destroyed and will no longer be a part of the evolution. The parts that construct the new
sphere that again functions as a shelter where the next step of the metamorphosis can
proceed. A new spectrum of experience opens and reconstructs all previously collected
experiences and beliefs.
This stage represents the second and thus the final stage before the metamorphosis succeeds.