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Metamorphosis by Natasha Zraikat

I remember being in class when I was 18 and doodling this half-human, half-bird creature. He was grotesquely beautiful, and appeared to be in a current state of very uncomfortable, perhaps even painful transformation. I cherished that sketch. Despite his ‘ugliness’ something about him was so beautiful. It wasn’t until years later that I realised what it was. It was his state of transition. He was neither here nor there, neither man nor bird. He was metamorphosing, and in that moment he belonged to both animal and human. 

Since I was a small child, I had fantasised about being an animal. I spent entire chunks of my childhood role-playing as my favourite animals at the time, namely horses, deer and cats (in that order). They were roles I took incredibly seriously, my mother can attest to this. I would go entire days (both at home or in public) without speaking, responding only in gestures and sounds that were fit for whatever animal I was that day. 

I was a strange child, and perhaps many still see me as a strange adult, but I realised only in my recent years how valuable this form of play actually was. It allowed me the daily opportunity to observe life through completely different eyes. To see the world as an animal might – as a natural provider of light, food, water, comfort and wonder rather than a place in which I needed to gain control. I would get lost for hours and days in the beauty that was, it was simply enough.

After having lived for many years as an adult, this painting was both a return to my childhood self and one of the greatest realisations of my adult life. I realised with this painting, the first of the hybrids in the series, that what I was doing as a child was much more than child’s play. I was profoundly aware of my connection to animals, to the earth and to all other life. It was just clearer to me then, perhaps as I’d only been around for a short time, for the greater part untouched by the outside world.

And this connection to all things, I realised, was everything. It is what keeps us grounded, loving, compassionate, grateful. Without it we are fearful, lost, self-centred, hungry for attention and power. And this is what we can see playing out in our world right now on a grand scale. The connection is everything, and in so many ways, from a personal scale to a global one, the connection has been broken. And the world, both human and non, has been paying the price. 

Metamorphosis

Natasha Zraikat

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Metamorphosis by Natasha Zraikat

I remember being in class when I was 18 and doodling this half-human, half-bird creature. He was grotesquely beautiful, and appeared to be in a current state of very uncomfortable, perhaps even painful transformation. I cherished that sketch. Despite his ‘ugliness’ something about him was so beautiful. It wasn’t until years later that I realised what it was. It was his state of transition. He was neither here nor there, neither man nor bird. He was metamorphosing, and in that moment he belonged to both animal and human. 

Since I was a small child, I had fantasised about being an animal. I spent entire chunks of my childhood role-playing as my favourite animals at the time, namely horses, deer and cats (in that order). They were roles I took incredibly seriously, my mother can attest to this. I would go entire days (both at home or in public) without speaking, responding only in gestures and sounds that were fit for whatever animal I was that day. 

I was a strange child, and perhaps many still see me as a strange adult, but I realised only in my recent years how valuable this form of play actually was. It allowed me the daily opportunity to observe life through completely different eyes. To see the world as an animal might – as a natural provider of light, food, water, comfort and wonder rather than a place in which I needed to gain control. I would get lost for hours and days in the beauty that was, it was simply enough.

After having lived for many years as an adult, this painting was both a return to my childhood self and one of the greatest realisations of my adult life. I realised with this painting, the first of the hybrids in the series, that what I was doing as a child was much more than child’s play. I was profoundly aware of my connection to animals, to the earth and to all other life. It was just clearer to me then, perhaps as I’d only been around for a short time, for the greater part untouched by the outside world.

And this connection to all things, I realised, was everything. It is what keeps us grounded, loving, compassionate, grateful. Without it we are fearful, lost, self-centred, hungry for attention and power. And this is what we can see playing out in our world right now on a grand scale. The connection is everything, and in so many ways, from a personal scale to a global one, the connection has been broken. And the world, both human and non, has been paying the price. 

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