My Cat Is Cooler Than You

In this day and age I am not sure that anyone can go on with his or her day without interacting with the Internet in some way, shape or form – I certainly can not. To play into the fascination I have with internet phenomenon’s I tried to create an internet meme based on my cat Trinket. The website I created mycatiscoolerthanyou.com, is a blog where I could post cute pictures of my cat juxtaposed with sayings of how the viewer wasn’t so special. I created large format posters of my cat with sayings like “This Party Sucks” along with the website address and hung them in bars, hoping that people under the influence of alcohol would navigate their way their on their mobile devices and read about how a cat has it much better off than them. I continued with this work creating various imagery of my cat juxtaposed with off the wall sayings and also provocative poses with the word “meow”. Propaganda in the form of buttons and stickers were also made.

The “My Cat Is A Sex Symbol” series contain actual quotes from Hollywood sex symbols.

This was an ongoing project that ended because of Trinket’s untimely death on April 10, 2010. [September 2009 - April 2010]