If i could call this album something, it would be contrast. I began this collage by looking at Gregor and how he was the opposite of the world he lived in. Although he became a cockroach, this feeling inherently began with his systematic and mundane lifestyle. He was always a huge difference from his community and each image that I have selected here has some sort of element that does not belong or is completely out of the norm.

Kafka writes about Gregor in such a dramatic manner to truly emphasize the way many of us live our lives. As humans we often feel out of place possibly due to our clothes, language, or lack of friends. We often continue this saga of discomfort, hoping that life will one day be better, yet most of the time it doesn’t. We choose to mend with society or contrast against it in some manner just to form our identities. Each picture in this collage is in some way an effect of identity. For example, the photo of garbage in front a fine dining restaurant forms a deep contrast. It is a rejecting of the upper class lifestyle and placed exactly in front. What I’m trying to say is that we all have our own identities that are consciously and subconsciously formed by the images that we see everyday.

Photo Credit:

Crooked – Khrystyna Melynck

Dinner table – Michael Mamiye

Pink Couch Photo – Hanna Utkin

Image 1045 – Evans Charles Augustine

Other 2 photos are me.