Cat Dreams
Human-animal hierarchy, Digital manipulation, Graphic2023
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Why do animals sometimes shock us into feeling things we can’t feel for other humans? Is a different relationship with animals possible if we no longer make them marginal to our lives and deaths? Why do we sometimes treat humans as animals, and animals as humans?
With intention to depart from the human, perhaps we are capable to relate to cats. Eglė asked people to draw a cat, as they were drawing, they were talking. She was told that cats see humans as large cats. She was told cats sleep for more than half of their lives. By manipulation of image, Eglė inquires: What do cats dream about? What do they see when they dream of each other?
Dreams can be convincing, but once we are out, we fail to recollect the images. If we dream the same thing again, we remember, and we believe it to be true at least for that split second. The collected drawings, like real memories, are distorted several times to a point of reduced recognition, to imitate the dream scenario. Eglė invites you to remember these pictures in your dreams, perhaps then you’ll think you are a cat seeing a human, which, in fact, will look like another cat. Perhaps animals can teach people how to be more human.
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