This global crisis of separation impacts each of us as individuals. We each find our own self inevitably separated, even fragmented. We are not complete without one another.
In my gouache painting, a work in progress, you see how the cat is uncomfortable. It is not yet fully a cat because it exists in somewhat loosely detached pieces, arranged in proximity to one another.
Such proximity implies relationship among the fragments, which our eyes want to complete. In fact, they jump to that conclusion and “recognize” a cat.
Yet it is only the semblance of a cat. There is no context, no background, no community. This cat is isolated by its fragmented self.
Will the cat eventually defragment itself? Will it become whole?
