Miss Katty

Title: Miss Katty
Medium: Mixed Media Upcycled Plastic, Oil on Treated Wood
Genre: Semi Abstract Relief
Size: 33"x 16"x 2"
Year: 2016
Artist Lisa Lej
Value US$1,200
 
I had a cat who was very special to me. she found me when I was a child about 4 years old very ill and she came by my bed. We became best of friends she was very gentle and loving and would give me the best back massages in the mornings. My neighbour killed her. The story is just too gross and painful to revisit and too graphic to have you read. He beat her to death and she died in my arms. I still cry for her writing this.  I never had another cat after her, I tried but they were all too rough and chauvinistic. They only come cuddling for their selfish desires. Playing with them would leave me with scratch marks and bleeding. 
 
I choose to see Miss Katty as a motherly spirit who came into my life to teach me love and care.  In this belief she lives with me forever as she is free and one with the elements. Every now and then I meet her again and again in the people I meet along my journey and this particular painting was inspired by a loving individual I met during my loneliness as a stranger in a strange land doing the strangest thing in the community. Well, I was doing a personal beach clean up research where I met a Norwegan princess along the shore who was so kind and smart and helpful and her name was "Miss Katty," lol actually her name was Katti and I just added Miss. She helped me clean the beach and we made art together from plastic waste. She believed in my project when the world thought I was a fool for investing in plastic pollution. She even shared her meals with me and I was thankful. she reminded me of my black and which Katty and we shared and cared for each other and enjoyed the many adventures of exploring nature.
 
In the villa I was staying had a black and white cat who was also very loving and kind like my childhood love and all three of us would play together in the afternoons after beach clean up with whatever plastic recyclables we found.
 
By purchasing this piece of art you help to fund the repurposing of waste and help us to promote responsible consumption and love. Animals in Jamaica are so vulnerable to abuse and while this piece if promoting recycling it is also promoting non-violence towards animals through my story about Miss Katty and that animals are here to show us how to live in love and harmony with nature.
 
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