There are many definitions to this word, whether it is literally taking an object and moving it to a different location, metaphorphisis - changing shape and form, mutation or reinvention. The first thing I thought of when given this brief was changing the concept of an object by removing it from its original use and putting it in a different context to change its meaning or purpose. Therefore, I began collecting objects and making changes to them to change their concept for my installation. I took a bicycle wheel from its original use and covered it with black lace, making it into an aesthetic instead of a functional object. Then a gravy boat with blue velvet, medicine boxes taken apart and put together again and onion peels dipped in wax, which created beautiful silhouette shapes. 
The following studio class, we did figurative drawing which I most enjoyed doing. We took turns being the model which we drew from, while two of us dressed this person using the clothing we had with us. Some of these outfits looked outrageous and interesting, which produced interesting silhouette shapes when we drew from them. The most important thing in our drawings should be the quality of line and the silhouette, not focusing on sketchy lines and shading or any other visual information.
Using these drawings, we photocopied them and blown them up into much larger proportions, as well as colour inverted them so that a large proportion of our drawings are black with a simple white line that outlines the silhouette of the figure. With these photocopies, we cut and mutated them, putting together very simplistic shapes, the purpose was to reinvent and mutate the silhouette. We continued experimenting by making slits in the shapes and twisting it around to mutate and reinvent its form and shape. This can represent garments that can be altered - slits that aren't meant to be there which challenge and push boundaries of proportion.
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