art enjoyer

Cat learns the language of art.

Hello. This Cat.

Cat think art very interesting. Cat think about art very many. Fill mind all day and night. Why? Cat tell.

Cat observe how arts are images and ideas that speak. How image can speak? How image have voice? Cat observe how art use image to express many different idea, stir many different emotion, bring to life many different thinkings. WOW.

All this from image. All this from idea. How?? This magics? Please contemplate.

The Uncivilised Cat, 1930. Agnes Miller Parker. Image via Fleming Collection.

Cat think this is painting of a cat that get in troubles. BIG troubles. Look how knock over flower. Look how disturb glasses. Look how tear papers. Cat would never. Except for that one time…

Cat look at cat in painting. How claws out, ears point, tail curve. Cat look at this painting and see self. Not self…but likeness. Something that feel familiars to Cat. This art was make almost 100 year past, and Cat see self in painting. How?? This art give Cat many adventures in thinkings. Cat think this painting tell about time travels.

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Marie Laurencin’s Young Girl with a Cat. Image via artnet.

Cat is enjoyer of paintings by human, name of Marie Laurencin. This human born many times past, year of 1883. This human have many friend who paint cubisms, but she is different. Paint very many dreamy human. Dreamy human in wispy places, dreamy human with pale animals. Paint with pale, ghostly colors. Paint make arts that look airy, wing-like. Speak in whisperings.

Cat learn word for how this paintings speak: ethereal. Remind Cat of bird outside window. Cat cannot catch, only can look. Cat think Marie Laurencin paint ethereal figures because airy, ghosty images resist being caught. Resist being captured by gaze.

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Screenshot of Car, from Garn47 by Floombo. Image via garn47 on X.

Cat can already hear readers now: “But Cat, video game characters are not art.” Cat disagree. When Cat look at this image, Cat see art. Cat’s eyes see art in more ways than painting that live inside frame on wall. Cat see art that live inside frame of big metal box. Not always need live in museum or book.

Cat see art that take many form, even form of thought or idea that is live inside big metal box. Cat’s eyes behold art. Even in video game.

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Untitled (Snoebelle), 2011. Sue de Beer. Image via Sue de Beer.

This art live in metal box and live in museum. How?? This art live inside frame of video. This art by human, name of Sue de Beer. Make video look like gothic horrors, look like eerie science fictions, like haunted fairy tale. Make video that speak in language of image.

Cat observe how this art has interesting way of being. All about placing. First place cat in video. Then place video on big metal picture box in room with furnitures. Then place room in museum. But placing not what make this art, only what make form. This art because because speak in image-language, language spoken only by artist name of Sue de Beer.

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Bodega Cat from Tschabalala Self’s Bodega Run (No 4), 2018. Image via Pilar Corrias.

When Cat lived in New York City, Cat spend many days and nights at bodega—at corner store. This artist in New York, name of Tschabalala Self, make art about bodega. Tell how bodega is meeting place and mirror for many different humans living in city of New York.

Cat is enjoyer of this art because it give Cat rememberings. Cat remembers sit on newspapers next to counter in bodega. Cat remembers drinking bodega coffee, eating egg and cheese on roll, watching humans come and go. Cat is enjoyer because this art give Cat experience of bodega.

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Cat Litter, 1990. Robert Gober. Image via Matthew Marks Gallery.

Look like bag of cat litter. But also…look like art. Make by artist, name of Robert Gober. Robert Gober make art that look like regular thing, like familiar thing. But because this art it not regular thing—only look like regular thing—it have other quality. Have quality of strangeness. Quality of strangeness some call ‘uncatty’.

Cat very impress by this art. How does artist make look like cat litter AND make look like art? Make Cat wonder: does artist make arts with hands, or does artist make arts with thinkings?

When art speak to Cat, art invite Cat to look at world more closely, more creatively, more meaningfully.

But the more Cat have thinkings about art, the more Cat have questions. The more Cat have curiousities. Cat realize that art stretches Cat’s thinkings and art makes puzzles for Cat’s thinkings. Sometimes Cat feel challenged by stretchings and puzzlings, but Cat enjoy this kind of challenge. Why??

Because challenge invite Cat to expand. Because challenge is like adventure game. Because all adventure games come with reward. Sometimes reward is hidden, sometimes is crunchy. Cat enjoy crunchy rewards. (Hint hint. Comments. Hint hint.)

Cat love all of you. Thank you for playing, Cat 🐾

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