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The purpose of this study is to investigate "Dogs" which have influenced the life course of the author. These various forms of dogs have existed from the past to the present, bringing to consciousness problems regarding the variation of power between humans and dogs. Through the accumulation and integration of author’s own intuitive experience, external observation, data analysis and text reading, the author has gradually developed round dimensional thinking modes; these dimensions facilitate the understanding of the previously mentioned problems regarding the power structure between dogs and humans. This structure enables the conglomeration of her own creative context and various interdisciplinary, multilevel concepts regarding dogs and human. The disciplines and concepts stem from the establishment of individual values, the feeling of national belonging, the end of the grand narrative in art history, and the globally flattened consumer society.

Through introspection, observation, and analysis of external circumstances, the process of visual creation via integrating perceptual experiences, implemented an anti-normative strategy. This strategy is illuminated by the manifestation of the forms and the materials that were, in part, a reaction to significant events in art history. In view of revealing the spectacle of the dog world, it is necessary to overcome the predicaments facing the surface of various fetish-related dog phenomena and to ponder over feasible solutions. All of the above-mentioned is the foundation of the author's academic research. The author’s work revolves around the following themes: simultaneously exploring the origin, and evolution, as well as dissembling the symbolic connotation of the picture of dogs, validating the accelerating commodification of pets and the evolution of pictures, and lastly, demonstrating the process of symbolic exchange of dogs from cultural values to consumption values. In conclusion, the author's research and creation demonstrates the relationship between humans and dogs in consumer society; as well as, scrutinizes both pet dogs in modern consumer society and the degeneration of the social class in to souvenirs, resulting in the manifestation of intimate alienation from our normative society.