Spring with Cheshire Cat
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archival inkjet print, 5/6/21
This lovely woman named Spring, is bedecked with beautiful flowers. She is swaying gracefully in a vintage forest. Her hand gestures towards the cat. Everything is beautiful, except for the Cheshire Cat. That Cat! The image of the trickster signifies all the dirty tricks that life bestows. Is he evil? Maybe, maybe not. He is the one throwing glitches at earthlings everyday. I, you, can blame the trickster. When your bad thumb pushes the wrong button on the clicker, blame the Cheshire Cat. When I get confused and cook the recipe wrong, the Cheshire Cat made me do it. When one is called into the managers office for an anal evaluation, and things do not go well, that is definitely the Cheshire Cat playing annoying tricks.
I found the inspiration for this image on FaceBook. Someone, I wish that I could remember who, posted a series of vintage photos from about a hundred years ago. I worked the image up in photoshop. Lots of fun adding color and making flowers. The original image had a rabbit, which I replaced with the Trickster Cat, adding a dash of irony, to spice things up.
