DOG STAR TRILOGY

This day is a day of beginning...a "constellation" of creative energy is initiated in celebration of the Southern African Wild Dog, the "painted wolf", or lycaon pictus.

I have recently scripted three digital artist's books, called the "Dog Star Trilogy", that plot the concerns of saving this particular life form, lycoan pictus, from genetic extinction. The first unit records my artwork presented in celebration of the characteristic fur markings of these dogs, which are as distinctly individual as our human fingerprints. The second "book" plots the zooalogical management of a metapopulation of wild dogs, in order to preserve their genetic diversity. And, the third unit contrasts the sense of the dogs in their natural wilderness with the confines of the conservation programmes. 

As I have observed these animals and empathised with their particular characteristics, I have entered the orbit of conserving earth's life forms.