If cats could talk, they wouldn't. -Nan Porter
This lens features my woodcut prints with cats and musings as to what these works mean. (Truthfully, I think that we artists are too close to our own work to understand it.) Originals and some fine art reproductions of most of these prints are available on my Etsy Store.
You can also learn more about me, exhibitions, and my other art by visiting my website, Painted Primate.
You can also learn more about me, exhibitions, and my other art by visiting my website, Painted Primate.
Lap Cat
Ha ha! I'm unaware of my own mortality!
Often times I've noticed an expression of utter obliviousness in my cat Horatio's eyes. I project this interpretation onto Horatio. For all I know, he's feeling cold or hungry. But I still envy that particular expression because, for me, it represents a state of mind that is serene and childlike. I made art about it, including a print titled Lap Cat. I used an image of Horatio licking the water off the edge of the bathtub. His eyes are almost maniacal; he's consumed by his actions. Instead of a bathtub, he licks the top of an arrangement of oranges. Behind him lurk cat skulls arranged in a dark grid formation. A poem fragment in the border reads: "I was born with my mouth open... entering this juicy world of peaches and lemons and ripe sun..." The cat lives in the moment of life, a state where the inevitability of death is unknown.
Lucky jerk.
Orange Sweater
Rubber ducky, you're the one...
The black cat is Aubrey, and the other is, of course, Horatio. All the things I find comforting through tactile sensations are present in this piece: the fuzzy cats, the hot bath, and the warm, ratty old orange sweater for which the piece is named. Is the meaning of this piece nothing more than the old cliche about simple pleasures in life? Perhaps. View From The Tub
Obsessed with bathtime? No, not me!
Bubble bath, bath salts, read in the bath, write in the bath, blast that ethereal New-Age hokey music while you soak your weary bones in the hot, steamy, cozy, wonderful bath; kitties slipping in and out of view during what is nothing more than pure, hedonistic indulgence. Little slices of moving, breathing shapes, shifting, here, then there, present, then gone. Poof. Pussietoes
Nobody likes to scoop the litterbox
People have told me that it looks like the human leg and foot are part of the cat, as if he is some kind of chimera. Really it was just Horatio sleeping in between my knees (We're not discussing that.) The wallpaper in the background features a one-legged bird bowing and turning its head backwards... we inevitably twist animals into conforming to an unnatural mold when we domesticate them. Sort of like what we do to ourselves.
Dragonfly
I believe in Sasquatch
I don't know if I'm in the bathroom or the back patio. All I know is that these sunflowers I planted are dying. They were so beautiful when they first bloomed. Seeing them in full-color real-life was so much better than just imagining growing 12 foot flowers in my yard. 12 foot flowers, with big heads on them, like figures, like people with dozens of leafy green arms. Didn't plan on the bees they'd attract, or the way each head would slowly bow, one at a time, drop seeds like blackened tears, and wither, crusty and brown.Think I'll plant 'em again next year.
Red Muumuu
Nobody ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everything is so beautiful and temporary; it's unbearable. Just go away and leave me alone with my cats. Petting them always makes me feel better. Let me hide in this tent of muumuu. Muumuu larger than a bath, larger than a room, larger than a house. A muumuu large enough to swallow up the whole universe, and end this beauty and suffering, once and for all. Easy To Hold
Do black strawberries taste like licorice?
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diagoras
Your work is great! I love cats and your creative renditions!
Posted January 28, 2008
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I am a printmaker, sculptor, art teacher, and humanist celebrant based in Philadelphia. (more)
