Another artist’s statement
April 10, 2010
Extending the thread that links 16th-century Dutch genre painting and Caillebotte through Kertesz to Cartier-Bresson and the later Chicago neo-realists, A’s work at last resolves the inherent dilemmas posed by her predecessors’ stark omission from their oeuvre of exemplaires of juvenile Felis catus (sp). As a daring reminder of the power of nature despite the urban captivity of Man, this presence of the fauve brings us full circle to our own savannah origins and the struggle for survival.
The one in little booties is especially cute.
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