Feline Dreamscape
Short Description
Feline Dreamscape places two cats amid a sculptural coral arrangement and mid-century chairs, suspended in a space that refuses to declare itself above or below water. Caustic light patterns drift across the wall; the reef encroaches on the domestic. A question follows: do the cats dream the landscape, or do corals dream of cats?
Process
The starting point is an interest in curated nature – reef formations as sculptural objects, dense and tactile, occupying domestic space with quiet authority. One cat sits alert; the other sleeps. It is the sleeping one that shifts the register: the fish on the wall appear not as presence but as reflection, displaced onto the dream plane where they belong. The visual equivalent of a half-remembered dream. But whose dream? The caustics on the wall shift the scene into ambiguity. The space becomes neither room nor seabed, but something held between the two.
The cats inhabit the scene with the complete indifference cats bring to any situation – which, here, reads less as humor and more as a statement about belonging. They are fully at home in a space that has no clear coordinates.
Feline Dreamscape sits within a broader practice of working with nature as a composed, almost staged element – not wilderness, but nature arranged, reframed, given new context.