This series draws from a long visual tradition in which the table serves as both a literal and symbolic site of connection, ritual, and power. From Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper to domestic life in Dutch paintings, portraits at the table have historically reinforced social structures—who is invited, who is excluded, and what roles individuals play within the family or community. The project started with something simple: noticing my dog eating alone on the kitchen floor while the rest of us sat at the table. It made me wonder what dogs perceive in those spaces we’ve defined as ours, and what it might mean to welcome them into our daily routines. By bringing dogs to the table, this series playfully challenges those conventions, asking us to reconsider inherited ideas about hierarchy, species, and belonging.

There’s also humor in the imagined etiquette, the sideway glances, the social dynamics that emerge when a dog moves from the sidelines to the table itself. These portraits invite us to see our dogs not just as pets, but as full characters in the story of home—quiet witnesses, full of quirks, and impossible to exclude.
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