LAND - ESCAPES   began in 2014 as a way of highlighting homeless dogs from the daily landscape of the grey, forgotten corners of the city in which they camouflage. As I deepened into darker alleys and dangerous neighbourhoods in order to find them, I also digged deeper into Charles Darwin 's theory of Evolution and how over 20,000 years ago human beings transformed wild wolves into harmless creatures of mere company and diversion.

I remember perceiving this as an act of sublime human intelligence and perseverance, yet the more I followed these shadows through the streets, I began to understand these animals and something about human beings differently. It became evident that those dogs I read about in text books and saw as a great achievement of our species were the same helpless creatures I had been following for months, the ones living among garbage bins and surviving on the food we throw away.

This project has become a reflection of our society, a culture which produces impulsively and discards blindly what no longer satisfies its needs or until something better comes along. The reason these animals camouflage so beautifully to our eyes among the decaying landscapes of the city is because they are nothing different to any other great human creation eventually lost in the never-ending list of "things we don't want anymore".