This drawing project, featuring dogs with baby pacifiers on their butts, addresses the question of pleasure subordinated to notions of control and surrender. Composed of about twenty small-format drawings, the work presents canine representations rendered in graphite, equipped with pink pacifiers painted in watercolor.

The pacifier, here serving as a pretext for providing pleasure to domestic animals, manifests an imposed enjoyment. Inflicted by the master, by the benefactor, or again, by a form of adoptive parent. The context addresses the roles and obligations inherent in the dominant/dominated relationship.

The pink appendages, which obstruct the dogs’ hindquarters, also support a role of censorship. First perceived as playful objects (worn as ornaments at the genesis of raves), the pink discs cover the animals’ behinds, thus camouflaging their assholes. It is hardly necessary here to draw the parallel with the baby silenced by having a pacifier placed in its mouth. The pacifier here plays the double role of an object of pleasure and an object of censorship. Linked to the idea of animal enjoyment while at the same time hiding those organs that morality compels us to deny the existence of—even on our own bodies. I reflect on the playful aspect of the pacifier by assigning it a role that is at once puritanical and disgraceful.