Philip Dawes Fine Art Gallery
 

Gallery Eleven - Artisan - 2

 

Cats' Toilet Palace

 

Commission

 

In about 1984 the client heard that the artist was experimenting with and making pyramids. She had a large house in Hampstead, north London and five cats. She made contact and asked if the artist would make her a pyramid to cover the cats dirt box. The main reason was to help contain the smell. I suggested that perhaps another design would be more suitable and better for the function. She was open to suggestions.

The design, based on the foreknowledge that she had a preference for Arabian architecture, was executed. (This was at a time prior to the corrupt Bush administration, with their wholesale discrediting the integrity of Islam globally, through their false accusations of Islamic terrorists engineering the events of 9-11 and the slaughter of the victims. The writer has done considerable research in this field from the first day of the horrors, when it was evident that each of the events were too complex and sophisticated for any outside terrorist involvement. That there had to be U.S. administration complicity in orchestrating the events was clear. Subsequent independent research from around the world has proved this fact.)

Back to art! Having shown the design to the client she gave the go-ahead for its construction. Six weeks later it was presented to the client. I brought with me my Canon F-1 in the hope of photographing one of the cats testing its palace loot. The contraption was placed over the dirt box, and I spread-eagled myself on the floor with lens focussed waiting to snap.

Lo and behold, a cat came along, sniffed the entrance to its palace loo and promptly walked inside and squatted, facing outwards. I was just about to click my prized shot, when the client, with excited jubilation, shrieked to high heaven with delight. This caused the cat to shoot up in the palace loo with fright and exited at the speed of lightning. Therefore, the photograph is without one of its residents in contemplation.

I called it the Cats' Toilet Palace. All the windows are in blue and red stained glass with brass trim.

 


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