Black Cat
Oil on canvas. The original is 20x24” and available for purchase. Small, medium, and large prints are approximately 5”x7”, 8”x10”, and 11”x14” respectively. Prints are made with archival ink on acid free paper. I will sign them before shipping them off to you or your loved one. Contact me for inquiries about larger prints.
Oil on canvas. The original is 20x24” and available for purchase. Small, medium, and large prints are approximately 5”x7”, 8”x10”, and 11”x14” respectively. Prints are made with archival ink on acid free paper. I will sign them before shipping them off to you or your loved one. Contact me for inquiries about larger prints.
Oil on canvas. The original is 20x24” and available for purchase. Small, medium, and large prints are approximately 5”x7”, 8”x10”, and 11”x14” respectively. Prints are made with archival ink on acid free paper. I will sign them before shipping them off to you or your loved one. Contact me for inquiries about larger prints.
Details
This oil painting is not only a celebration of the smooth, luscious vibrancy of that medium but also of a very special place in Berkeley, California. Deward Hastings created a silent sanctuary in his backyard with a boiling hot hottub. One day while I was cooling down on one of the wooden platforms, one of the black cats that resided in that alternate reality, crawled onto my chest, curled up and stared down at me. The vibrating of its purring, weight of its body and feeling of fur and paws on my wet skin, erased thoughts of the complexity of who was welcome in that place, my privilege as a cis gendered woman and whatever else had been whirling through my mind. For a while it was just me, the redwood behind me and this creature on me. The energy between our eyes not quite menacing but not quite loving. Extremely present, almost humorous. If it were up to the cat, we would probably still be there to this day but I began to get restless and a bit chilly. It went off to find a more suitable resting place and I went back to the hot water. The original is 20x24” and currently part of my private collection.