What began as a dappy painting turned experimental-guerilla-sticker-campaign has somehow morphed into my most prolific piece to date. At the time, I had no idea I had just painted what would be the basis of my personal brand today-- one week before COVID hit, March 2020. Boredom during the pandemic and my interest in experimental branding pushed me to turn my Cat Self Portrait into stickers, covering any surface I could get my hands on south of BYU campus. The glaringly anonymous cat staring back from street poles caught several peoples’ attention. Using the Cat as my profile picture, people would rack their brain as to where they had seen the garish, kitschy cat before approaching me in public asking if I “was the Cat girl?”. I started distributing the stickers for free and soon after I was getting photos of the Cat on any surface you could imagine from friends, mutuals, acquaintances, and strangers alike. This crowd of my near and dear friends and supporters began creating iterations of the Cat, in homage to the original. I adapted the painting into a flat logo and began using it in my work; sneaking it into projects as a signature easter egg.
Cat Self Portrait Iterations by Friends & Supporters
Stencil Graffiti
Cat Gallery
