More about "On the Job"
I got Orange Cat in 1987 before I was married. She has
spent her life being a great cat, greeting with kindness all the additional pets
that have joined her.
As she aged
she began sleeping on Doug’s laptop computer.
We would come in to the house hearing continuous beeping with commands and
windows invoked that neither of us had ever seen. We wondered if she could
get a job as a Microsoft Test Kitty. 
While
Orange was a young kitty her best friends were another cat, Chutzpah, and our
rabbit, Bun Bun. She and Brownie, the dog, played chase and
slept on the bed together.
Orange Cat lived to be 20 years old.
As part of her portrait I wanted to
include the rest of her family.
the icons on the computer screen are of everyone who lived with us during her
lifetime.
After Doug and were married, Orange became very devoted to him, sleeping in his office during the day and on his lap joining us for TV at night. I included those times by adding this incorporation this photo into the painting.
