LEE PIVNIK

I am a dog walking backwards (2017)
FRI-ENDS 01
Providence, RI
Curated by Jake Sillen & Lee Pivnik

Maya Bjornson, Haven Butler, Allyson Church, Gabriel Cohen, Amanda Denmark, Brittni Ann Harvey, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Jackson LaLonde, Mei Lenehan, Henry McClellan, Katrina Pisetti, Sam Reese, Jessica Renzelman, Shaina Tabak, Maia Taber, Jeremy Lee Wolin, Wen Zhuang

I am a dog walking backwards and I’m overly aware of it. And it makes me anxious and it makes me dig. Dig up the groomed lawn and slip under the fences. Dig deep into my thoughts and tear up the room.

I am a dog walking backwards contemplating what role I’ll have in the future. I walk backwards to the warm past, letting the memories graze their hands along my fur. The memories repeat and form icons and those repeat too. Houses and lawns and dogs and people populate my canine head. And I bark at the mirror.

I am a dog walking backwards and all dogs go to heaven. The pope said it himself. And belief systems are complicated by mundane moments. And I don’t know what to put my faith in when I feel so small.