The Soul Dog collection was put together during my first semester at the Australian National University. I had enrolled in the certificate of photography at the School of Arts. It was meant to take me two years to complete the course on a part time basis, but after one semester I found out we were moving to the USA, so I put my studies on hold.
The body of work I submitted at the end of six months consisted of six large canvasses, each featuring a close up portrait of a dog who was making direct eye contact with me. The premise was that the eyes are the window to the soul. I was trying to get across that dogs are not mere soul-less creatures, but do in fact have a very important place in this world.
The first of the collection was the inspiration for the remainder of the images. I completely fell in love with this image of Lexie and when I saw it I knew how I wanted to complete the body of work. This montage shows the completed canvas. While the processing I’ve undertaken for this series looks a little less than perfect on the computer screen, the results on canvas were magic.
I really hope that when I return to Australia get to go back to Canberra so I can complete this course.
Over the next six weeks I’ll bring you each of the images in the collection.
Happy 400 comments
As promised the 400th comment was recently posted. Luckily, Jill from j.c.furtography is a self-confessed weekend internet addict and was the first to comment on Saturday morning. Jill, I’ve included an extra pack of Dogs of India cards in your shipment.
Todays picture, in the usual fashion was chosen from google images. It came from a blog called The Dogs of Pompeii. I’d really love to get to Pompeii one of these days. Preferably before Mt Vesuvius blows again! The next big volcanic eruption is due sometime this century. After that, the remnants of old Pompeii will once again be covered in molten lava, but this time, the neighboring modern day cities will be destroyed along with it.