Anubis

Anubis became the first deity to be portrayed due to the desiccated remains of a dog coming into our possession after being found in a friends garden shed. Daisy, as she became known, looked mummified and open to links with dog gods and with Anubis, the Egyptian jackal headed guide to the underworld.

Anubis would weigh the hearts of souls as they passed to the underworld against the goddess of justice Matt’s feather of truth. If the hearts weighed more than the feather of truth then Ammit, the crocodile headed goddess and “swallower of the dead” would eat up the heart and the soul would cease to exist and never make it to the afterworld.

Using a behemoth commercial copy camera in the darkroom to play with scale, combined with obsolete infrared film that was originally intended to print 2-tone text such as menus in industrial print machines. These large rolls of film (30m x 30cm format) languished for years in the garden shed of a retired commercial printer. Even though the film was obsolete it offered the luxurious possibility of ultra large format negatives. Contact printing at this scale allows for incredible detail.