Image: Smoking (2007).
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Throughout Cameron's painting career the dog has been a reoccurring symbolic figure. Through roles of companionship, guardian and working, man and dog have historically shared a symbiotic relationship. Through out art and literature, dogs have served to symbolically evaluate and offer comment on the human condition adding comment from the personal to the political, and from the domestic sphere to the destructive realm of war and turmoil. Cameron not only builds upon this historical context of dog as symbol but also utilizes the Dog as an accessible entry point between viewer and the painted subject matter. Cameron's dogs encounter the viewer through their direct gaze. They invite us to peer closer into Cameron's composed environments. And his dogs permit us to reflect upon the world around us.
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