Monster Sept 2010

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146, German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

A group of us from college have put on a show  at the 242 Gallery in Shoreditch, with the theme of monster - thinking in terms of Frankenstein to highlight the problems of disparate artists coming together to make a show.

I decided to take the theme as myself as monster. I made a drawing Portrait 3 (Metamorposis after Paula Rego after Franz Kafka). As the title suggests I am Gregor from Kafka’s story who wakes up to find he has turned into an insect and is lying stuck on his back.

Abbi Torrance Metamorphosis (after Paula Rego after Kafka) 2010.

This is the Paula Rego painting that I borrowed the idea from:

Paula Rego Metamorphosis after kafka 2002.