Literary Metamorphosis

Description

Literary Metamorphosis envisions reading as transformation, a process in which thought, feeling, and form undergo continual renewal. Literature becomes an agent of change, reshaping the inner life as it is encountered on the page.

The composition unites human figure and winged form, combining symbols of mind, heart, and text into a single image. A book opens into flight, while sun, star, and tear suggest the passage through wonder, clarity, and loss that accompanies every act of literary engagement.

As an enduring presence in a room, the work embodies the idea that books alter those who approach them. It conveys the sense that reading is not passive reception but metamorphosis, a movement toward new ways of seeing and becoming.