Went Searching For The American Dream, Found Cats
Today was the opening reception of Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology, and the American Dream down at the University of Louisville. The exhibition is part of this year's Louisville Photo Biennial, and having been on my own personal quest to photograph the American Dream for some time now I had to check it out.
Was really interested in talking to the photographer(s) behind the photos, try and pick their brain a bit about capturing something as elusive as the American Dream. Got there and discovered I'd need an Ouija board for that as the photos were pulled from U of L's collections and dated back to World War II. Seems I'd misunderstood the premise of the exhibition a bit.
Was still a great show, just not quite the one I was expecting. Came back home all excited to go through my old photos with new eyes and see what there was waiting to be found. Played the old eeny, meeny, miny, moe with the hard drive collection and went to clicking.
Somehow, the next thing I know I'm editing cat photos. This being my equivalent of a Saturday, just decided to call it Caturday and lean into it. If there was a moral to this story, Tito forgot what it was.
Destroying blinds is the American feline dream, at least according to Tito here. Tuxedos talking about dreams is how we got to the point of searching for them, so I'd take anything he says with a grain of cat fur.
Thank you!
As a cat mom.. I can say that it's a way better day than planned lol
Ha, I wouldn't argue with you on that. Hadn't had pets since I moved off to go to college until these two allowed me into their lives. They seem to be living the dream at the very least :D
Haha. I feel you for sure!
Finally an American dream I can relate to
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Same. The exhibition was interesting, many of the photos were drawn from a collection donated to U of L by Standard Oil. Seems Standard Oil had been in cahoots with the Nazis up until the US entered WW2, so they paid a bunch of photographers to go out and document the American Dream to distract from that and show how important the oil industry was to the country. Felt like that kinda said everything you needed to know about the American Dream.
Beautiful Cats and amazing Shots
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Evander, Tito, and I thank you :)
You should get a lot of 'dreaming cat' pictures in response to this one :)
Aww, sleepy kitty. Do they twitch in their sleep too?
Yes, they do!. This one is a character. He belongs to my daughter but spends a lot of time with us upstairs because she adopted a big dog. The cat is about 16...we call him the bandit because he steals food from the counter and also from right under our noses. Very, very cute.