addendum

In Heartache Allison reminds me that once I used Hidey in one of my pieces--- and so I did, in a block print.  The print was not exactly about Hidey, but about humans' dual (or dueling) tendencies towards Apollonian abstraction and Dionysian instinct... My view being that no matter what amazing things we achieve through our ability to abstract, in the end Nature always wins.   I had been reading Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, and in the introduction she uses cats and their unwavering stare to illustrate a point.  Hidey was just the model for my piece which, in the end, might just be a pretty little picture of a beautiful little cat....