DOGS at Clissold Park by Kazusa Onoe

The Clissold Park, Hackney, London, installation of DOG on Saturday 31st July 2010 was very successful and very popular. the images on this page come from the Japanese blog contributor and photographer Kazusa Onoe. As one of the DOG Stewards at the installation she was able to observe the sculpture throughout the day. Her photographs provide an idea of the scale of this work and some of the forms the artist manages to create within the installation.

Almost everyone who attended spoke highly of the work and participated to the full. People spent a long time walking around the DOGs and reading the messages of hope for the future contributed to the installation by over 500 children in local primary schools.

An example of some of the hundreds of messages of hope from the children. There are more on this blog and in time all of the messages will be here on line.


Kazusa has captured here a wonderful image of the DOGs stretching off into the distance.

And as we look at this image we can see how the artist's placement, the inter-relation with landscape and the strong form of the sculptures all combine to produce combinations which
present different viewpoints.

Clissold Park, now there are more DOGs out there!

The installation at Clissold Park was a great success. We have spent today tired and worn out after having completed delivery of the installation and a very long day.

Already the images are flowing in and we will be getting them up on line. The image above has come in from Oxford! So yesterday's DOGs have already started their individual journies!

We intend to publish all photographs of the DOGs but do not want to publish any images with children in for obvious reasons. Maybe a sign of a sad world but no need to take any chance
where their welfare is concerned.

Equally, with adults in images with DOG sculptures maybe it would be kind of you to state in a text or e-mail if you want us to post the image freely on the web.

The real beauty is that if you gather images of the DOGs within your own creative reference, then there are none of these more mundane problems. The image above is a good case in point, consider what this image conveys to you in terms of ideas.

Many thanks to all the people who came. You are now all in possession of a limited number of Takayama original sculptures which you can now use to create your own artist images. As a public art sculpture this artist conceived of the idea that she is working beyond the conformity of a gallery or installation but to see the process of 'public art' to move beyond public ownership and into public creativity.

Holland Park is the final physical installation, Sunday 8th August, and after that there are a finite number of DOG sculptures out in the world. Some may be discarded, some may be treasured, some may be forgotten but then what turns up from this art is, once Holland Park is complete, the creative input of you.

We can't wait to see what will happen.

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Sotoko and her DOG

This video is in Japanese but even so we can clearly see how people react to the DOG Sculptures. Sotoko was one of the volunteers who helped to marshall the event at Paradise Gardens and, like all the volunteers, she too wanted a DOG Sculpture.

Satoko's DOG goes walkies

Satoko loves her DOG Sculpture and takes him everywhere with her. This constant compainion is reliable and trustworthy and like any good dog always stays still when told to.

Satoko's DOG sculpture loves a really good hole in the ground.

After a good digging around there is nothing like a bit to eat and a drink!

Careful you don't over do it!

Home again soon!

Where's Your DOG

Once you have taken ownership of your own part of this amazing public art sculpture, once you have taken your DOG away, where does it go to, what does it do? The artist is providing the chance for all who have participated in the sculpture to photograph their DOG in the places where it finds itself. These images can be posted here or onto the Facebook