Cats and Pears
(watercolor illustration on paper, 2005)
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
Hippolyte Taine
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
Joseph Wood Krutch
"Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit."
John S. Nichols
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
Cleveland Amory
Matilda Dubois, the Flapper you see in the Cats and Pears illustration is known among her friends for three things: her bright blue eyes, her beautiful red hair and her free spirit.
She is a true flower child even though she precedes the flower children by several generations. Matilda believes in continuous partying, dancing and free love. She hates both bras and shoes. She loves her two cats: Deb and Daddy. They love her back, mainly because she feeds them.
Matilda will never get married. The love of her life, a sea captain that she would see on and off for the next twenty years will die during the WWII. She will never recover from this tragedy and spend the rest of her life mourning him. She'll die at the age of ninety seven in the same mansion where she was born. She'll leave all of her money to her twenty two cats, all of whom will be descended from Deb and Daddy.
