Cat Woman

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 125 x 65 cm

Year: 2007

For the Celtic tradition, the cat was basically a beneficial animal, whose eyes are considered the door of the Otherworld.

Sacred animal, revered and sometimes excessively pampered, within Tibetan Buddhism it is considered a companion in the obituary passage, and represents the subconscious of the one who dreams (or travels) in lucid dreams.

The Romans appreciated the feline's spirit of independence so much that even the goddess Libertas was represented with a cat, a symbol of absolute freedom.

In ancient Egypt, domestic cats were considered sacred animals.

They were worshiped for their ability to decrease the mouse population in the Nile cereal fields, which are of capital economic importance.

The Egyptians sought to seek the contentment of Bastet, the goddess of protection, beauty and pleasure, love and fertility.

This goddess was represented with the body of a woman and the head of a cat. Precisely, it was through those feline eyes that the goddess Bastet (who believed that she lived in the body of cats) scrutinized the souls of men, controlling their actions.

"Cat Woman" presents a symbiosis of great visual intensity between a cat and a woman, highlighting the strength of the feline eyes, which possess and contain the woman, who remains anonymous, since she does not show her face.

Through these eyes, just as the Egyptian goddess Bastet did, it seeks to reach the soul of the person who looks at them, crossing their own gaze, surprising them until they are intimidated.

The composition synthesizes two culturally complementary ideas, such as the feminine and the feline, united in the image of a complex spirit, but at the same time beautiful, seductive and cunning, graceful and mysterious.