The Pet Show #4 卡利·戴维森 Carli Davidson

Shake Cats, 2012 © Carli Davidson, Video 2.21 min

卡利·戴维森

生于1981年，美国

“当我们看到所爱的东西以新的方式呈现，是什么让我们着迷？我们人类是视觉动物而且相当肤浅⸺当我给狗狗弗兰基看这些视频的时候，她看着我，一脸困惑⸺画面中没有什么是快速移动的、发出响声的或与食物相关的东西，那她为什么要在乎？有一天，当我在清理我的马士提夫犬诺伯特的口水时，我突然想到，这种弹性是多么地奇怪，这种猛烈的动作一定会将口水甩向9英尺高的空中。我想知道进化是如何让这个生物做到这一点的。

这个系列已经进行了十年，每次上传图片时我仍然会笑⸺但不可否认的是，它们看起来也非常怪异⸺畸形的和不同于我们所知和喜爱的动物。有时嘴唇遮住了眼睛，或者眼球在眼皮后面移动，这使皮肤看起来几乎像面具。这就像是怪兽与傻瓜的结合。我喜欢在创意上走这条路线，既有趣又有点令人不安，让观众有理由多花一点时间与图片相处，特别是如果这是他们自己的狗。”

甩动狗，2012年©卡利·戴维森，视频时长2分21秒

甩动猫，2014年©卡利·戴维森，视频时长1分45秒

Carli Davidson

B.1981, USA

“What is it about seeing something we love in a new way that grips us? Us humans, so visual and superficial - I play these videos for my dog Frankie and she looks at me confused - there is nothing fast, loud, or food related so why should she care?Cleaning my mastiff Norberts slobber off of the ceiling one day I thought, what a strange elasticity, what a violent motion that must propel this drool 9 feet into the air. I would like to see how evolution has engineered this creature to do that.

A decade into this series I still laugh at the images every time I upload them - but there is also no denying that they also look monstrous - deformed and different from the animals we know and love. Sometimes lips cover eyes, or eyeballs move behind lids making the skin look almost mask-like. There is a mashup of gargoyle meets goofball. I like walking that line creatively, fun but also a bit disturbing, giving the viewer a reason to sit with the image for a moment and contemplate their relationship with it, especially if it’s their own dog.”