About me and Purple Cat…

This day was inevitable — Purple Cat just would not leave me alone, so I’m building this place to share what PC brings to me with all you wonderful people. It has been a decade since I first drew the football-and-triangle-shaped critter and it’s the one I come back to most when I have a story I want to tell. Astronomer, sea captain, chef, surfer, dumpster diver, petsitter … On my drawing board, this cat does it all.

I recently finished an abstract painting series (curated views to come) for which I thought a great deal about the general state of the world and how humanity as a whole might come out of our current situation in one piece. Surprisingly, I emerged with more hope than when I went in. I don’t want to sound facile — things are stark in many places. We who want change can only do what we can. But we must do it, even if it is as simple as a cat reaching for the stars.

You can’t change the world. But the world changes every day.

And I've come to believe that's not a reason for despair — it's the whole opening. Change doesn't wait for permission or perfect conditions. It happens in small rooms, in small acts, in the stubborn decision to keep making things that are honest and hopeful. That's what Purple Cat keeps teaching me, ten years in. Show up. Be curious. Reach anyway.

So that's what this place is. A sketchbook made public. A little proof that one absurd, football-shaped cat can carry a lot of meaning — if you let it.

Welcome. I'm glad you're here.