Video’s that i put together today. Each of them silent in order to represent how beagles can not speak for themselves and how we humans are their only hope. Also it represents how their vocal cords are removed in order to silence them. A practice that makes the workers feel better as they dont have to hear howling and barking but it takes away to one thing that makes a beagle stand out. They are able to howl in 4 or 5 different ways because their vocal cords are shaped differently to some dog breeds as so removing them taked away the beagles identity as a vocally expressive hound.
In the first video i stitched crochet sqaures around my dogs legs and tail in order to show constrants that a beagles in put into in a lab i order to undergo tests. The video also clearly shows how my dogs natural instinct kicked in and he wanted nothing more than to remove the crochet from his body. Makes me wonder whether beagles fight against the system and whether if they do, do they get punished and how?
The second video is in an array of grey tones to show no character, no identity in the lack of colour present. I want it to represent how the beagles identities are stripped and so they are left as a dull shell that is liveless. It represents how beagles may give up hope and just feel that being tested on is all their life can be as it is, for some, all they have ever known. The images taken in order for me to put this video together were taken on a very bright sunny day. They were extremely colourful, from the bright green grass, to the blue sky and down to my mutli couloured knitting. This lack of colour is also to represent how how some dogs loose some of their eyesight and some go blind. I feel that colour is very important in life and is so powerful and i could not imagine life without it. Doing the dull grey shades and the hidden aspect of this video was hard as i was saying good bye to my inspiration in life, colour. It made me feel like i being robbed of my sight, the same feeling, i would imagine a beagle going through when having products put in their eyes.
