Worcester-myth-metaphor





For this piece I had the idea to use the myth of a dog from Japan who after his master died, he continued to guard and sleep by the grave for sixteen years until his death. I will take this and make a modern like version of it by using my dog and various other images to create a look of him guarding it as well. I will need to first shoot an image of my dog in various positions. Then I would need to take another image of a grave and put both in a woodland background. I wish to do this because of my interest and love of animals. Originally I wanted to do an old Shoshone myth about a horse however I couldn’t get the images of the horses on time due to weather so I had to improvise a bit. This myth I heard years ago from a man at a dog show, I remember always being fascinated by how the dog could be so loyal. However it wasn’t written so I was wondering if it was just his story, until I later found it in one of my books at home with all the details lining up. This will be based on a myth about an akita dog. An elderly Japanese man rescued the dog and raised it like it was his own son. The two grew very close very quickly. When the old man died though the dog seemed to not totally understand that he wasn’t coming back at first. However when he was buried the dog saw where, walked over and stayed until the day he died.