Featured Daily Artwork: Feline Punctuation, 2013
From 2013:
Another one of those visualizations as I awoke today. I could feel cats tucked up against me all around, two on one side, two on the other, and one at my feet. They tend to trade places so I wasn’t sure who was where, but of course they are all black, and as I laid there, face in my pillow, trying to determine which was who, I could picture them black against the white bedspread, and then as quotation marks on either side of me, and a period by my feet. So here it is, not sure if it works visually, but this is pretty much what I visualized then later got up and sketched.
Wow, only five black cats at the time! There was a period of almost a year, August 2012 when we lost Kelly to June 2013 when I took 20 and 19-year-old Lakota and Emeraude to hospice foster, when it was just me and the five. I had started rescuing and fostering in college but escalated in 1985 when I rented a house instead of an apartment. After all the work and all the cats and all the losses over 28+ years, it felt natural to rest, enjoy and just have fun with only those five cats who were all purrfectly healthy and completely socialized. It was rejuvenating and prepared me for more hospice fosters then serious TNR and socializing feral kittens and older traumatized cats after I’d started volunteering with the Homeless Cat Management Team.
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The fur quotes are really very cool!
Ha ha, very fun visualizing it and then actually drawing it!