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Art-Dog Stories with Eira
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Art-Dog Stories with Eira
My name is Eira. In the beginning I was called Tibor and<br />
then Ira, but people kept asking my moms why I was<br />
named “anger”, because that’s what that word means in<br />
Latin and here in Austria lots of people know Latin, so<br />
my moms changed my name to Eira which means “river”.<br />
I’m a mixed “bag”, that’s why I’m so smart. My dog mom is<br />
a standard poodle, she’s white; my dog dad is a Kerry Blue<br />
Terrier and he’s blue-black. I’m black but soon I’ll turn<br />
blue, like my dad.<br />
I wrote these stories with my painter mom.<br />
My mom says I’m a dog but also an artist, so these stories<br />
are about my working life as an artist dog.
As a puppy I practiced<br />
my colors. That was very hard.<br />
I had to sit still and concentrate.
It was lots more fun to race around inside<br />
and run circles in the room.
Both of my moms are<br />
artists, but I spend<br />
almost all my time<br />
with my painter<br />
mom.
I have my own table in the studio.<br />
I get to sit on my table.
Beard paintings are the most fun!
I also make sculpture. I learned that from<br />
my other mom. She loves cats, especially<br />
my sister-cat Stella.
Sometimes we all make big art together –<br />
me, my moms, and our artist friends.
I spend lots of time with my<br />
moms in the studio. I like<br />
to watch them work, but<br />
sometimes I fall asleep.<br />
Sometimes my sister<br />
comes to watch too.<br />
She’s much smaller<br />
and lives next door.
At the end of the day I’m very tired.<br />
It’s hard work being an artist dog.
My moms and I go look at many exhibits.
It’s good to look at lots of art but<br />
often I don’t understand it.
My mom said I can’t forget the important book details,<br />
otherwise it’s not a real book and part of that is<br />
saying thank you. My thank yous are loud WOOFS,<br />
so it will get real loud!
WOOF WOOF WOOF to my second mom, that<br />
she let me stay, I know I was real wild in the<br />
beginning; WOOF to my grandma Maria R. for<br />
naming me Tibor and letting me go live with an<br />
artist family; WOOF to my grandma Maggi Z.<br />
for letting me cuddle with her ...
... WOOF to my sister-cat Stella for still playing<br />
with me; WOOF to Leo S. and Bettina F. for not<br />
kicking us out of school; WOOF to Karin I. for<br />
teaching us so many new things; WOOF WOOF<br />
to Petra K. and Ferdinand R. for letting me work<br />
with them. My mom <strong>Heidi</strong> Zednik helped me<br />
write and draw this book. This book is our<br />
theoretical work, which is part of our training<br />
as a Human/Dog-Therapy Team for<br />
Humanis et Canis.
www.stolligraphic.at<br />
© <strong>Heidi</strong> Zednik 2017
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