Stone age memes: Radioactive lolcats
Posted on July 2, 2009
Filed Under Cats, Dogs |
I’ve never experienced “ Radioactive Cats ,” Sandy Skoglund’s 1981 installation, in person, but I love the photographs I’ve seen of it: a gray kitchen, with an old man and woman, and everywhere, cats, painted neon green, crawling, writhing, looking lanky and predatory and anything but cute. Skoglund likes to take the things that seem tame and comfortable to us and render them in ways that make us squirm. Lately I’ve begun to think that “Radioactive Cats” suitably predicted the status of the feli
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Stone age memes: Radioactive lolcats
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