The Waiting Game is an artistic project that explores three of the characteristics that define us as a species: we are social, self-aware animals that live in relation to our environment.
The physical presence of man or animal in rural, urban and industrial spaces reveals the dystopian relationship of human beings with themselves, with others and with the entirety of their environment.
In The Waiting Game III, the dog’s bond with man is the example chosen to address the way in which our species relates to the natural environment.
The dog has figured in our recent culture as a paradigm of fidelity, a living stuffed animal or as an endearing being.
But in this case, it is about the dog that fulfills a guard function, that waits and protects generally chained or locked behind a gate, a wall or a metal fence.
That is born and dies in the same place and that lives subject to its owner, a human capable, as in many other cases of relationship with the environment, of distancing himself emotionally from his animal to extremes of cruelty.
They are dogs for whom, lacking the slightest attention, time sends them to a slow and sad future.
And yet, they are animals that offer themselves submissively to fulfill the mission that has been entrusted to them and that obey eagerly the voice of their master, from whom they only obtain enough food to perpetuate their day to day.
Dogs that are treated as a simple instrumental resource.
These images show the relationship that man establishes with nature.
After the control of food through agriculture and the domination of animals, humans began to feel that they belonged to a different and superior existential sphere of the world that surrounded them and turned their relationship with nature into a continuous utilitarian effort that to this day has not stopped taking advantage of any available resource.