Dog of zone

Abstract

The Zone. Seemingly dead space. It becomes a dominating, uncontrolled, autonomous entity in the presence of a human being. It manifests its reactions by changing the state of objects that belong to it. The Dog is one such object. It's an expression of an abrupt, aggressive motion and destructive influence of the Zone. The concept of the Zone is inspired by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's novel Roadside Picnic, published in 1972, but can also be tied to the movie Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979), and to a nuclear disaster that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Chernobyl in Ukraine.