Conversion
«Let what is meant be fulfilled. Let them believe it. And let them laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion isn’t really soul energy, it’s just friction between the soul and the outside world. The most important thing is that they believe in themselves. And become helpless like children. Because weakness is great, and power is negligible. When a person is born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he’s strong and he’s freaking out. When a tree grows, it’s soft and flexible. When it’s dry and hard, it dies. Blackness and power are the satellites of death. The flexibility and weakness express the freshness of existence. So, what’s hard won’t win.» — Stalker, cut, Andrei Tarkowski, 1979.
The project is a visual interpretation of Franz Kafka’s «Prevention» in the context of contemporary social reality. In the center, not the image of an insect, but the figure of an entity that has lost its social function and, after that, its human status. There is no catastrophe, no tragedy, no ordinary occurrence. A man becomes a burden, and that’s enough to start the process of forgetting. His exclusion is not an accident, nor is it related to personal qualities. It’s structural. He’s doomed, not because he’s changed, but because he’s no match.
The family, like society, cannot endure a weakness that has no time. Care is regarded as a temporary concession. When the resource (emotional, physical, temporary) is exhausted, the connection is severed.
Awakening — A Time to Turn
«When he woke up one morning after a troubled dream, Gregor Zamza discovered that he had turned into a terrible insect in his bed.»
Knowledge of the New Body
A room like a prison.
Family response
«Father with his fists began to drive him back into the room like a wild beast, waving a stick and a newspaper.»
Loss of language and communication
Change in the environment — loss of furniture
«The sister and mother began to carry out the furniture. He thought there was a part of his past with every object.»
My sister’s care is becoming routine.
Deterioration, bodily degradation
Final rejection of banishment as deliverment
" We have to get rid of him, " said the sister. — We should just forget it. He’s not our brother anymore.»
Death and silence
Images were made in Midjourney V7 without processing
