While being at the Casa Tagumerche residency in 2021 I visited a local home with an astonishing amount of cats, mostly black. I had my sketchbook with me and started draing them, and then couldn't stop and ended up having a pile of cats portraits in all kind of techniques, pencil, inks, pastel, monotype and even cut out.
The strangest thing was that I didn't like them. And also i was feeling a bit stuck creatively. And in some weird way my aversion to these cats triggered the creative process and led to a lot of ideas and projects. I also made a series of riso prints based on these drawings when I got back to London.