These images were created during a month long residency through the Art For Change Foundation located in New Delhi India. The theme of the residency was one word… small. Such a open concept for making a body of work presents the challenge of being overrun with different avenues wanting to be explored.

This was my first experience being out of the United States and I was completely intimidated by the constant stimuli being thrown at me by the New Delhi landscape. I started to focus on things that were “small” in the sense that they were overlooked. Using dogs as metaphorical figures for the people encountered on my daily walks in the neighborhood, presenting them as religious icons. The insertion of Western iconography was used as a way of coping and understanding my environment. Each picture is a culmination of the aforementioned figures placed within chaotic reflections of the neighborhood. They are peaceful and holy in a place where they are battered and wholly overlooked. Historically white men from the west specialize in looking down on places and people strange to them, instead my goal was to display their dignity in an environment I will never fully understand.