Vixen, Vector is an evocative photographic series documenting the subtle geometries and sympathetic alignments of a former street dog navigating the streets of New Orleans. As the artist notes, “Photographs from our outings reveal fleeting and yet deliberate synchronicities and alignments—of limb and leash, shadow and sidewalk crack—created by a dog finding her place and translating her role within it.”

The work explores levers of empathy, particularly between species, capturing the incidental signifiers of gesture and expression through a convergence of reflex, impulse, situation, and timing. On daily walks, Vixen moves through the city carrying nothing, wearing nothing; “her body is her vehicle and her expression.” Through companionate mirroring of animate and inanimate forms, she delineates subtle harmonies, revealing an everyday geometry that is at once improvisational and declarative. Rescued from the streets, she retains aspects of a wild creature, and the decisions she makes—where to go, how to move, what to notice—carry a profound poignancy. In her movements, the city becomes a “cursive of routes and scent trails, of scribbled street runes,” an intimate reading of space through the lens of a canine perspective.

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Information obtained from the Lee Deigaard website.