Flying Cats Project
BEGINNINGS For one of my classes, we had a three-week assignment to create a piece using surrealism based on an idea or theme we were supposed to develop the first week. I have been wanting to develop a character that’s a flying cat, but with dragon-style wings, thank you very much. I drew the first version of this character in a three-point perspective you can see in my portfolio. But somehow mental health came up as a theme, and then somehow I realized that the flying cat would perfectly embody one of the symptoms of my mental health issues: what I’ve always called spinning negative thoughts (those usually self-hating thoughts that just keep coming, no matter how you try to distract yourself). Cats are independent and pretty much do what they want Give them wings and imagine how that would be—they’d be everywhere if there were a lot of them.…