wk3 Character
Some articles and stories about animal’s mental disorder intrigued me to look back when I painfully decided to fix (castration) my cat several years ago. Back then, I was worried what will happen to my cat knowing that castration could be a cruel thing to him, erasing his ‘identity’ so there will be no more territorial pissing or any hostile behavior which means convenient for people, not for his sake. And after he was castrated, I realized that it should have been done earlier if I wanted him to be a complete ‘indoor type’ cat, not a wild one. He still moans a lot in night time, and does recognize a cat doll that my wife bought for him implying it’s his wife. Only thing that has been changed ever since is no more territorial pissing at every corner to corner.
I believe that he’s still a cat, but his identity has been blurred now he’s ‘disturbed’ cat, not fixed-one.
What if he thinks himself a human-being? This seems possible for me because my cat and I have been living together for several years and main ‘character’ he has seen in his limited world is me (or my wife).
So, I experimented that what it feels like a being a cat, wearing a mask that I created, and socks on both hands.
Character_MasterVid_CatMan from Aram Chang on Vimeo.
Character_CatToy from Aram Chang on Vimeo.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
You have a great sense of design (I was just looking at the front end of your web site). Do you have any post-mortem realizations to add here, about what you’d change or do differently if you could make version 2???
November 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I also think this piece works much much better as a 2 channel work than with the 3rd channel. An implicit post-mortem in our new edit…
November 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I also think this piece works much much better as a 2 channel work than with the 3rd channel. An implicit post-mortem in your new edit…