A feline portrait emerges from a layered field of collage, paint, and fragmented text. Newspaper clippings, gestural marks, and blocks of saturated color construct a visual terrain that oscillates between urban archive and instinctive presence.
The animal’s gaze anchors the composition. Rendered with heightened realism against a fractured background, the figure appears both integrated and resistant — as if assembled from cultural debris yet unwilling to dissolve into it.
Printed language and graphic elements function not as narrative, but as residue. They frame the cat within a human system of signs, consumption, and documentation.
The heart motif, placed almost incidentally, introduces ambiguity: sentiment or irony, sincerity or appropriation.
The work stages a tension between representation and vitality — between the wild body and the structures that attempt to contain it.
The image is not decorative.
It negotiates visibility.
Original artwork by Julia Shilo
19 ½ x 19 ½ in | 50 x 50 cmAcrylic, collage, pastel, canvas
