Gregor's Room

Formal Response to Gregor's Room

As I was reading this story, everything aside from Gregor seemed to be an eggshell white. Since the family was not the center of the story, I seemed to put them in the background of the picture as I was imagining this in my mind. The only color that seemed to exist was Gregor. He appeared in my mind as any other bug would, brown. I pictured Gregor as a cockroach. His back curved, a hard smooth shell in different hues of brown. The whole story as I pictured it was in a spot color form.

Vocabulary for Kafka's Room

intercede 

premonition

asphyxiation

ascertain

reproaches

Personal Response to Gregor's Room

I felt that this piece of work is quite interesting. From the beginning you find yourself in a strange world where a man has been turned into a bug. However, through out the piece as you read along, you start to gain a familiarity with the piece, as any story goes. I found myself disgusted at the beginning, as I do not like bugs. However, as I kept reading, I found myself not so much as caring but curious as to what would happen to Gregor. Once I read that he had died, I felt a tad sorry for Gregor. Although this is a very strange piece, you start to develop a familiarity and relationship with the characters, like any other story you may read. This story also shows in its own unique way that every morning will not be the same. One morning you may wake up and find that you have been turned into a bug. Because you will never know what will happen the next day, waking up every morning is a gamble we all take. One morning you wake up and you go to school or work, eat, play, sleep, and so on. The next, your life is drastically changed and it will never be the same again. The subject matter of this story was very strange and bizarre through out the piece but can still be considered a nice work of literature and art. 

Explanation

In the end, the piece as my peers would say turned out to be cool and graphic look. I didn't want the black to overwhelm so I simply painted all the edges of the bed with black and kept the rest white. Because I saw this as spot color, I painted Gregor black and brown. 

The obstacle was the most obvious. Trying to create this piece with only paper. Another obstacle was painting Gregor and trying to keep his leg in place because they kept trying to get out.