Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 31, 2016
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Sophie: (!) Sophie: Why do you work with toilet paper and garbage? REAL artists work with paint and clay. Sophie: I don't get it. Trash is trash. Sophie: You're just not any good. Sophie: Sigh. Sophie: I just wanted to thank you for your recent piece on "Change." I lost a hind foot a few years ago, and seeing your art made me feel beautiful because of my change, not despite it. Anyway, I'm sure you hear it all the time, but keep up the good work!
A true story. When John Lennon died, I sent a sympathy card to Yoko Ono (speaking of unconventional artists). The image was of horses looking upward at a rainbow. On the blank space inside the fold I punched a hole and wrote, “This is a hole to see rainbows through. I hope you can see them again soon.” This was a reference to a work of hers called “A Hole to See the Sky Through.” Months later, her first solo album after losing John appeared. It was titled “It’s All Right, I See Rainbows.” and included a song with that title as a refrain. I always nurtured a little fantasy that she might have had my card propped in a window or on her piano as she wrote those songs. Seeing Puck’s card in our little artist’s window brought those memories to mind.