an installation

Lucy Cat (b. 2018)
Portal Fantasy [The Only Way Out Is Through], 2019
Stuffed lizard toy, toilet paper tube

In this atypically linear piece, the artist expresses her own life-long love of crawling halfway into cave-like structures and then staying there with her hindquarters sticking out, like a Pevensie child who is content to merely obstruct the wardrobe. Simultaneously, she reimagines herself as one of her own cat toys. The piece invites the viewer to peer around to the other end and look the lizard in the eye, but it is (deliberately?) arranged near furniture so there is not enough space for a human viewer to do so.