Metamorphosis
Dublin Core
Title
Metamorphosis
Description
Grade 12, Age 17
Weston High School
Weston, MA
Silver Key – Expanded Projects
Suyeon Ji and Hyojin Song, Educators
The purpose behind “Metamorphosis” is to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that separated people physically, and showed us that our society was already quite disconnected. To create this installation, I fashioned a wire frame, then covered it with rice paper, inspired by the shape of the Urodid moth’s cocoon. I then made a net from disposable masks and wrapped it around the cocoon. I wanted to convey that while many people struggled with losing loved ones, financial challenges, and instability due to the pandemic, a great many people were also able to find benefit in the newfound time they had for themselves. For some people, the pandemic has, in some ways, been a time of self-discovery and healing. Therefore, as we slowly came out of quarantine, some of us had been metamorphosed through an insightful isolation that allowed us to see the world and one another in a new light.
Weston High School
Weston, MA
Silver Key – Expanded Projects
Suyeon Ji and Hyojin Song, Educators
The purpose behind “Metamorphosis” is to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that separated people physically, and showed us that our society was already quite disconnected. To create this installation, I fashioned a wire frame, then covered it with rice paper, inspired by the shape of the Urodid moth’s cocoon. I then made a net from disposable masks and wrapped it around the cocoon. I wanted to convey that while many people struggled with losing loved ones, financial challenges, and instability due to the pandemic, a great many people were also able to find benefit in the newfound time they had for themselves. For some people, the pandemic has, in some ways, been a time of self-discovery and healing. Therefore, as we slowly came out of quarantine, some of us had been metamorphosed through an insightful isolation that allowed us to see the world and one another in a new light.
Creator
EUNICE LEE
Publisher
Presented by The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Citation
EUNICE LEE, “Metamorphosis,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed May 18, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/4115.