Bobbies Allergies
 BOBBIES ALLERGIES places the viewer in a poetic installation centered around an allergic greyhound, Bob whose immune system reacts to common house mite. Traces of latex and felt pen draw delicate lines swirling from floor to the nooks and crannies within the gallery space, intricately mapping the dog as an irrepressible outcome of its environment, his docile body marked and overgrown with microbes and mollusc, a battle ground of white blood cells emerging from the feet into a succession of photocopies of a marching band casting a dark threatening shadow on the wall. Within this intimate setting, Bobbies hostile allergy becomes a symptom of its repulsion for the natural debris of domestic life and draws a parallel of dog as man, not through a likeness or desire for affection as man’s best friend, but in its ambiguous mechanism to cope with the outside world in subservience.
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