Memorial for a Black Cat Painting

One day in the Spring of 2015 as I was browsing about a local nursery, the kind that sells plants, I noticed a shy, thin, half grown black kitten lurking about in the shrubbery. I tried to approach him, but beings of my size and species were apparently perceived as dangerous to him. He darted away into the greenery. A minute or so later I saw the kitten again as he darted into the busy street and was struck by a car. He flopped about in the road for a few moments before I could get there. Part of his head was caved in and there was a considerable amount of blood for such a small being. His heart was racing wildly and I held him in my hands until the beating faded. He passed from this world. On the day that I completed this painting, I realized that that tiny being would be forgotten forever. So I named this painting in memorial for him, although it has nothing to do with cats. Now that I am looking at this painting and writing about it things come to mind. Although I generally hate working symbolically, I can see this painting as representing the old and the new. The old erodes and fades into flatness and dissipates and the new fills the void of what once was constituting its nascent self in the most perfect of all three-dimensional shapes: the sphere. These spheres are young; un-eroded. New life depends on death and would not exist without it. The kitten had no name, and most probably, no one who loved him. He passed too soon from this earth, but his existence was not in vain and may he be rewarded with a pleasant life in the next incarnation where death will make room for him.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in

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