Archival pigment print, framed and matted (image: 7/125” x 5.325” frame: 12” x 10.5”)
Above are examples of framed prints. Click for detail. Be sure to fill in “Date Posted” box to specify which drawing.
How to Order
- Go to Instagram @ecce_cattus
- Return to this website and click the “Purchase Print” button below and specify image by date posted on instagram
$600 (shipping within the U.S. included)
Add $50 for international shipping
50% of all proceeds are donated to The Workers Circle
About Ecce Cattus
Artificial Intelligence helped me climb out of pandemic malaise. Specifically, the image results from the prompt Schrodinger’s Cat; the name of the physicist’s thought experiment in which, under quantum conditions, a cat in a box could theoretically be both dead and alive at the same time- that is until the box is opened and an observation is made.
I wondered how AI would render a cat both dead and alive. The strange results felt like the AI was depicting itself the nanosecond before I pressed the return key. As if I’d stumbled on AI picturing its own quantum state.
Starting with the AI scribbles, I redraw, combine, add to, and regurgitate never ending variations of cats in ambiguous spaces, ambiguous boxes. Boxes become cats or cats become boxes. They’re allegorical mirrors: cat/cat could be artwork/viewer, left brain/right brain, brain/mind, self/not-self, conscious/unconscious, or tame/feral. Cats can mime any manner or metaphor of relationship. Take your pick.