Metamorphosis narrates an immigrant photographer's point of view. It is a metaphor of its creator; it is the story of an artist split between two societies, the Middle East and the West. The artwork is a humorously large, rough, sphere-shaped ball performatively rolled in the street by the artist, who, resembling the Sisyphean myth or perhaps a dung beetle, experiences a sense of vertigo with respect to the hegemony of photographs in the contemporary era. The work conveys life experiences through self-interactions with, and within, the environment. A photographer is sentenced to observing freely and through a lens simultaneously. Mirroring this, Metamorphosis juxtaposes straight photography with a radically manipulated imaging process.
The pieces of paper conforming the sphere take us back to the history of photography before the digital era. The act of crumpling, tearing, and scratching the surfaces until the whole becomes an amorphic form, transforms previously polished works of photography and challenges the accepted ways of viewing photography in the home or gallery. The goal is for the viewer to receive the work with a feeling of whirling and a loss of balance reinforced by the accompanying video.
Each photograph constituting the sphere is self-extrapolation; a premature thought, and a personal ideology presented in such a way to be perceived and understood by the world. They embody the artist’s hopes and aspirations.