The Muzzle and the Mirror

Dogs, considered as metaphors for a complicated realm as the ones of emotions, could be able to address the topic in a more direct way. By spreading new perspectives to understand the feelings, dogs and wolves highlight the differences in coping with them, if compared to human beings. The social side of life heavily influences human behaviours, also in the choices on whether to express or not emotions. It is not only related to the manifestation, but even when deciding to feel and to explore a sensation or to repress it. The concept of personal image and identity built up through the years, the experiences and the familiar and / or social contexts are some of the aspects that shape the emotional sphere of an individual.
In this complex attitude towards the understanding and managing, emotions pervade in any case the space occupied and the animals around perceive and respond in peculiar manners. With ancestral senses, like the smell or instincts, they detect and absorb, they create a bond both of duality and estrangement with the human figure, in which they became the protagonists and co-protagonists at the same time. The room rarefied to lead the sight just on the figures, especially on their silhouettes and on some specific details of their body. Emotions, and the tension connected to them, are the centre of a dissolved but universal atmosphere.