From Another Angle, 2018

The mummified piece demonstrates the significance of cats during the time of Ancient Egypt. Cats were mummified and buried with jewellery along with a pot of milk and a mummified mouse. These were found in the 1888, where a farmer was digging a well in Beni Hasan and coincidentally found an underground tomb containing approximately 80,000 mummified cats. However, there is a positive and a negative side to this. They were mummified because they were considered sacred due to goddess Bastet however, some Egyptians took advantage of that and bred them to kill them once they were mature so that they would be able to sell them to priests and pilgrims. In the end, I dedicated my time to portray this significance to the viewers because I wanted to teach the viewers an interesting part of human history.

Nonetheless, I was most intrigued by how black cats were seen during medieval times as they were either seen as 'bad luck' or as 'witchcraft'. This made the catholic church burn thousands of black cats. Whereas, black cats were sacred in the Celtic mythology as they represented prosper and good health. In the end, paintings were done of my black cat to show a vulnerable and attentive side of my cat.

My pieces explore the cats in the past and present. I believe the choice of colour and materials were appropriate to show that.