One of my favorite subjects to photograph & work with is the "fabulous feline". Cats are so emotive and energetic. It's hard to go wrong when snapping these furballs! I like to feature my cats in imaginary circumstances - places I feel they would love to be if given the freedom to fly or talk about their dreams to us. My "StarKitty Collection" was inspired by the wonderful story "The StarThrower" by Loren Eiseley. If you don't know of it, it's a simple tale of a man who watches from afar a boy throwing starfish that were washed up on a beach back into the sea. While watching, he realizes that the boy is preforming a futile task. There were simply too many starfish that needed to be saved. The man walks to the boy and says "Why are you doing this, there is simply no way you can make a difference to these starfish - there's simply too many!". The boy just bends over and picks up another starfish and throws the creature as far as he can into the steel gray sea. He looks at the man and simply says, "I made a difference to that one.". Seeing the wisdom in the boys words, the man joins the boy in his effort to save one at a time.
My "StarKitty Collection" are photo illustrations of rescue cats that I know & love set in their own dreamworld.... where they live, run, play, and dream without hinderance like a starfish who is thrown back into the sea. We all have our own StarThrower. Some call it a "Guardian Angel", some call it "mother or father", some call it "good fortune" or "God". Whatever or whoever we choose to hold dear as our StarThrower, those in our life or dreams that help us survive this turbulent world is of our choosing.... but we all must have a StarThrower - or I fear we would perish slowly like a starfish on the beach.
