I'm building a unique attraction in which you experience the metamorphosis of a butterfly by spinning yourself around this zoetrope! I've glued all these paper sculptures together by hand.
This is a working prototype of the zoetrope at the centre of the atrraction. Every time one of the 16 frames of the animation is right in front of you, the lantern in the middle flashes and so, the animation comes to life.
The cocoons have the same shape as the exterior of the attraction. You step into a giant cocoon.
When I started designing this 3 years ago, I wanted to learn how to fly. My first paragliding solo flight I fell out of the sky and broke my spine. It inspired me to make the caterpillar a crawling spine with a little skull.
The butterfly lays an egg, from which a caterpillar emarges. It eats. grows and crawls its way to the next plant. There, it makes a cocoon, from which a a black butterfly emerges. After laying an egg, the butterfly flies away and the process repeats itself again and again.
The butterflies fly up and disappear into the lantern at the centre of the 3D zoetrope. The different stages of metamorphosis represent different growth processes you go through in life.
I'm working on building the cage at the centre of the attraction out of metal. I cut little strips and solder them together at the right angles.
It is my dream to build this attraction and have thousands of people experience it! I'm currently running a crowdfunding campaign to build it!
Would you want to experience it? Please donate and help me build my dream!
