Claire_MythMetaphor



Concept: My idea for this project is to create a metaphor of the myth Laelaps and the Teumessian Fox, based on my dogs obsession with squirrels using Photoshop to combine images.

Facts: In order to understand the project you have to understand the myth. This myth is from Greek mythology and is a not very common explanation for Canis Major and Canis Minor. It starts by talking about a golden dog by the name of Laelaps. This dog is amazing and has magical powers so that everything he hunts he catches. At the same time the Teumessian Fox in wrecking havoc on Earth so Laelaps is sent to hunt him down. The trick is that part of the Teumessian Foxes magic is that it can never be caught, so the Laelaps and the Teumessian Fox are forever chasing each other, until Zeus gets so fed up with them he puts them in the stars.

Subjects: The things I will need to shoot is some sort of landscape photo, a photo of a squirrel, and I was also thinking that I would do a photo of my doing looking in the distance as well as one of him running.

Reasoning: I wish to do this idea, because I wanted to do something personal to me, something that is part of my life. My dog is definitely part of my life. I think this will give me a chance to go deeper into photoshop, I have a plan in my head and I know it will involve a lot of Photoshop but hopefully I can learn a lot and it will turn out well. This is interesting to me because it's mythology and I am very interested in mythology but because I am doing my dog, that gives it a deeper personal meaning to me. The photos above especially the ones by Maggie Taylor and Juliann Kost are a kind of inspiration as to how I would like my Photoshop to look.