Cat String Theory

I drew this this morning and it went through many changes throughout the day. I got the idea from a message a friend sent me. It had to do with string theory and there was a picture of a kitten with a string, which I thought was pretty funny. I think the video about string theory stuck in my mind, because the idea of other unknown, undiscovered dimensions interests me, especially as an Orthodox Christian. I had a close friend who loved quantum physics and had a good mind for grasping it and he used to talk about it a lot, but it had been awhile since I had thought about it.

I like to think about these kinds of things when I draw, because although my main interests and inspirations have always been line and color, I am still fascinated by shape, space, and mass, probably the same way a bird might be fascinated by an airplane. We do something similar, but very differently and for very different reasons. But I will never be an airplane, and an airplane will never be a bird.

So I thought a lot about how mass affects space when I originally drew this, but true to form, after I had my fun with that, the picture started taking over, and making its own rules, leading the way to its own conclusion. It's too early for me to tell how much of my original questionings are left here, but certainly the contemplation of string theory was the seed, fertilized by a cat laying on the back of my sofa, in the morning sunlight.