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Metamorfose

Sam de Laat

During ‘Metamorfose’ (metamorphoses), a man becomes a chair and a chair becomes a man. This process seems to be inescapable, forced by some cosmic power. The process requires strength, provided by the man, and stability, provided by the chair. The man and the chair do not want or need anything from each other, there’s no part of this process that has anything to do with free will. It’s the natural occurring flow of all things.The man is human because of his lack of purpose. Mankind is in a never-ending state of searching for a reason to be. For a chair, a man made object, the opposite is true. A chair is a chair solely because it has the function, the purpose of being a chair. Just as all things, these two must eventually return to a state of chaos; entropy. The man must lose his humanity, he can’t be man forever. The chair must lose its purpose, it can’t be a chair forever. ‘Metamorfose’ is the exact moment these two metaphysical beings lose the things that make them what they are, and at that same moment they inevitably become one another.

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