A Kafkaesque Being Savoring the Earth’s Warmth II is a group of sculptures made of wax, polyurethane, plant matter and fabric. They look like empty husks lying on bare earth. Some sit on top of the ground, some are partly sunk into it. The starting point was Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. In my own work, I began to think about a shell that might remain after transformation. Through these forms I wanted to ask what is left of a person when they are valued only for their usefulness. The outer shape is still there, as if it once held something, but the being inside can no longer be seen. The sculptures grew out of the collage Ghost Ways. As I developed its forms into sculptures, their contact with the earth and their partial burial became part of the work. In the exhibition project Metamorphosis Topography of Absence, visitors walk between the forms across an earth floor. Earth and stones crunch underfoot, and every step leaves the surface a little different. The title draws on this contact between the shell-like forms and the earth.