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noun meta·mor·pho·sis | \ ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-səs
plural: metamorphoses\ ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-ˌsēz\

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This collection is about an exhausted human being. After being injured in society, he returns to his solitary isolation. He hopes to become a better human being by undergoing a transformation. In each frame, we see different phase of his transformation. This was a psychological project done in the form of staged photography.

“To be” one must become and “to become” one must be… Isn't this the case that man is condemned to be human and to exist one needs to become, and to become one needs to web, and to web one needs to release, and to release one needs to crawl in silence; inside the inner self, loneliness, inside the opportunity of intentional solitude, inside of a strict rational imagination with all the hidden selves; countering what and who; to recapture the self from the inner-self? Is it possible to forget the wounds? Is it possible to forget the pain? Is it possible not to see the nightmare of memories snoring? Is it possible to be geography and not history? Is it possible to be history and not human? Is it possible to become but not to exist in a continuous cycle in the continuity of a self? How to be? How to become?

Statement of Collection:

1a: change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means b: a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances 2: a typically marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal (such as a butterfly or a frog) occurring subsequent to birth or hatching

Definition of Metamorphosis:

Changeover, Conversion, Transfiguration, Transformation

Synonyms:

THE CRAWL

SYNCING

All pieces of this collection are available on Foundation: https://foundation.app/@shahabsalimian