My project is becoming more personal, and I think it’s time to talk about the relationship that I have with dogs and how I can best represent this. More importantly, I need to think about why it is important for me to put it… out there, for people to see. So, it’s time to answer some of my own questions. I think it’s less about the relationship I have with dogs but the relationship i have to thinking about dogs. I like to think about dogs. More than I like thinking about them, it seems more accurate to describe it as a compulsion. I’n not thinking about Dogs, Dogs is a place that I go when I need to distract myself. It is like my brain’s alternate path to anxiety. It must be some sort of subconscious interruption, but it feels like a cool thing my brain is doing for me. Why though? I don’t know when it started happening. There’s a sort of wall that comes up when I try to think to hard about it– shortly after conceiving this project my childhood dog Ruby passed away, and now it makes me sort sad to think about my personal relationship with dogs because she was the only dog I’ve had and the only one I’ve ever had an intimate relationship with. I’m going to include her in my project, I don’t think that statements warrants more explanation than I’ve already given. I will say that I miss her, and I think it has affected my project more than I thought it. As for the question of why it is important for people to see this? I think that all I can say is I’m hoping it will strike a chord with people who have social anxiety, and I guess I want to document this sort of unique/ maybe not that uncommon defense mechanism.