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ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE
In Marcel Heijnen’s Hong Kong Garage Dogs tough pups tool around.
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ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE
Dutch photographer, designer, and musician Marcel Heijnen says his creativity is “driven by a general curiosity about life and its meaning.” Now, if the meaning of life is tough pups tinkering away in gritty garages, sign us up.
Heijnen’s ongoing project Chinese Whiskers looks at the four-legged mates of Hong Kong’s goods and services industry, so far traversing shop cats, market cats, and now dipping a paw on the other side of the best friend fence with garage dogs.
The series Hong Kong Garage Dogs, shot during the Year of the Dog and collected and bound into a book, is accompanied by Singaporean poet Grace Chia’s sharp haikus (He’s my love supreme / Hamsum and I go way back / Dancing to disco), which reveal the ‘telepathic messages’ sent between garage human and canine co-worker, one that’s part companion, part security guard. On the whole, the Chinese Whiskers series documents a certain cultural period in Hong Kong’s fast-disappearing heritage, as much as it reflects the kick Heijnen (and everyone) gets from spotting a repeated subject.
If you can muster it, try looking beyond those doting doggo eyes and into a now-temporary time and space. Scan the shelves, trace the motor grease, and find evidence of life-long dedication to camaraderie and craft.
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All images courtesy of Marcel Heijnen
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