Interview with Lucas Foglia -> Daniel Shea →

“In the current work, I am leaving room for more surprises. For instance, I went to an area south of Eden, Wyoming, where a rancher was herding his sheep across a wild landscape. The railroad company that owned the land nearby had recently sold the mineral rights to a company based in Houston for natural gas drilling and the land was about to be mined. When I arrived the rancher was counting his sheep. Thousands of sheep, one at a time. It was a long process and I felt stuck, but then I saw two of the sheep dogs away from their herd. The small dog really wanted to mate with the larger dog. He kept mounting her and she fought him off every time. The photograph that resulted from that experience is still about land use and sheep herding, but it is also about dogs fucking when they were supposed to be watching sheep. And I like that.” (…)