For my visual essay, I have chosen to document animal shelters, particularly dog shelters such as the Tunica Humane Society. The shelter is over run with dogs and is adding to that burden everyday. Whenever someone wanders into the shelter to look around, they are overwhelmed by the massive amount of animals there. New kennels are being built by volunteers on a weekly basis to try and keep up with the demand for them while the county tries to cut the budget that the no-kill shelter lives on. With only half of their originally proposed budget, the shelter is trying even harder to get their animals into good loving homes. Because of how many animals are there, it is difficult to focus on one animal and give them the attention they deserve. I know this first hand because I volunteer at this shelter every weekend. This will make gathering information on site easy and I will draw out each dog there. The dogs will all be rendered in quick sketch form reflecting the feeling of trying to give full attention to one animal whenever there are so many to look at. These drawings will all be presented as jumbled together in the end, while in the middle there will be 4, 11x17s in the format of a window. This window represents looking in or even viewing the lives of these animals. The dogs in the 4 larger pieces will all be rendered in a much clearer fashion than the ones all around them. The dogs surrounding the finished rendered pieces will be done on smaller pages and will be in different sizes and even colors. The area around will be overwhelming and suffocating in the massive amount of drawings.
For my visual essay, I have chosen to document animal shelters, particularly dog shelters such as the Tunica Humane Society. The shelter is over run with dogs and is adding to that burden everyday. Whenever someone wanders into the shelter to look around, they are overwhelmed by the massive amount of animals there. New kennels are being built by volunteers on a weekly basis to try and keep up with the demand for them while the county tries to cut the budget that the no-kill shelter lives on. With only half of their originally proposed budget, the shelter is trying even harder to get their animals into good loving homes. Because of how many animals are there, it is difficult to focus on one animal and give them the attention they deserve. I know this first hand because I volunteer at this shelter every weekend. This will make gathering information on site easy and I will draw out each dog there. The dogs will all be rendered in quick sketch form reflecting the feeling of trying to give full attention to one animal whenever there are so many to look at. These drawings will all be presented as jumbled together in the end, while in the middle there will be 4, 11x17s in the format of a window. This window represents looking in or even viewing the lives of these animals. The dogs in the 4 larger pieces will all be rendered in a much clearer fashion than the ones all around them. The dogs surrounding the finished rendered pieces will be done on smaller pages and will be in different sizes and even colors. The area around will be overwhelming and suffocating in the massive amount of drawings.
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