For me, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is an analogy for the current state of our lives. As new college students now in the eighth week of college, what started out as exploring or figuring things out is developing into a routine. A routine of sleep, school, work and sleep. The pictures I have chosen sequence a typical day. The sequence of this day is repeated for many of us, day after day after day. We wake up, we commute to school, we come back home. The first image is the all to familiar clock telling us to wake up; the second is the step we take outside in the early hours of the day; the third and fourth are the daily commute; the fifth represents the end of the day; and the six is the commute back home.

This routine was Gregor’s life. He would wake up, go to work, come back home- day after day. There was no substance to his life, his routine became his life. Reading Metamorphosis and experiencing it through the dance, through our mood diaries, and through our images forced me to question the substance of my life beyond routine.

Khrystyna Melnyk

Joeleen Moy

Hanna Utkin

Kevin Parakkattu

Nicolette Belitsis