"Il Male di Vivere" (The Pain of Living) is a poem by Italian Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale. With these composites I tried to represent "Il Male di Vivere" as a state of the mind -- a constant turmoil of the heart, the longing for change and the struggle to accept change. Individual titles: (1) Choices (2) The Music Within (3) Metamorphosis (4) Displacement (5) Unable to Fly