Maddie the Coon Hound to stand on Twin Kittens
A good-natured shelter rescue with an acrobat’s sense of balance and the preternatural stillness of a street performer
- Theron Humphrey
- Maddie the Coon Hound poses with the bakers of the Little Tart Bakeshop
This Friday, Twin Kittens gallery will host a reception for Maddie the Coon Hound and Theron Humphrey. The star of the show is canine Maddie, a good-natured shelter rescue with an acrobat’s sense of balance and the preternatural stillness of a street performer. Her owner, Theron Humphrey, adopted her while on the road doing a documentation project called This Wild Idea, in which he photographed a different person every day for a year. That project earned Humphrey the title of National Geographic Traveler of the Year. While working on This Wild Idea, Humphrey began photographing Maddie, too. Aside from the exhibition running at Twin Kittens through Feb. 17, Maddie has already become a Buzzfeed star and an iPhone app and will soon be a book.
I caught up with Humphrey and Maddie at Grant Park Octane to discuss the project.