Metamorphosis Project

For my Metamorphosis project I decided to use the social justice issue that is very prevalent today. After watching the documentary called "The Cove" which is about dolphins being killed in Japan by the thousands I decided that it was an issue I wanted to learn more about. The fishermen real in thousands of dolphin into a cove and pick out the good looking dolphins of which these dolphins are sold to places like Sea-World to be trained to be entertainers and they kill the ones that aren't good looking enough. 

My metamorphosis project is on the dolphin killings in Japan and the first image I chose was fisher men in a boat killing dolphins and loading them onto the boat. This image gradually changes into a young boy eating a piece of sushi with chopsticks. The sushi represents the dolphin because the reality that results in the killings of the dolphins it turns into food for the local schools because they have such an excess of dead  dolphins that do not pass the bar to be sold to places like Sea-World for thousands of dollars and the fishermen donate it to the schools for kids to eat. Since the dolphins hold high concentrations of mercury in their body, to eat them ultimately leads to sickness and a slow death.