Nicolas Cage Loves His Cat. The Internet Was Made for This Moment

Nicolas Cage has a cat. Cage and that cat have motivated an artwork show. The world-wide-web has never experienced a far better working day.  

The artwork will be displayed at CatCon, a conference wholly devoted to the creature Al Gore had in mind when he invented our beloved throughout the world network of related computers. This year’s celebration — feel of it like a Comedian-Con for cat persons — usually takes area from Oct. 1-2 in Pasadena, California. 

“Nicolas Cage is an artist’s aspiration subject — he’s cult, he is camp and he DGAF,” claimed CatCon founder Susan Michals, who’s also founder and curator of Cat Artwork Display, a biennial exhibit of feline-focused creations that is sponsoring the Cage exhibit. “Cats have several of the similar properties, so why not mix the two and rejoice it on canvas?”

7 artists are bringing their brushstrokes and pixels to CatCon for Uncaged: The Unbearable Bodyweight of Genius Cat Artwork. 

The celebration of the versatile actor and his adopted black kitty Merlin includes Brian Hoffman‘s Catstor Troy, an 11 inch by 14 inch print, hand-embellished with diamond dust, embossed, signed and framed in a ornamental classic frame. The piece — an homage to Cage’s wild-eyed villain in 1997’s Face/Off — reveals the actor’s head atop a retro cartoon girl’s physique, a small blue bow in his hair. A few cartoonish cats encompass him. 

“It can be absolutely bizarre and a tad creepy, but heartwarming and enjoyable if you appreciate Cage and cats,” states Hoffman, a Boston designer, illustrator and printmaker. “At first, the piece had Cage sitting down upcoming to magic mushrooms in an homage to Alice in Wonderland and her cat Dinah, as effectively as that just one time Nic Cage allegedly took mushrooms with his cat.” 

Vanessa Stockard‘s oil-on-board, titled Wild at Art, depicts the actor remaining embraced by a lifetime-sizing black cat with yellow eyes and a matching yellow wig. I requested Jet, my very own black cat with yellow eyes, to critique the piece. 

“I locate the disjunction of cat and human in Stockard’s operate the two reductive and resonant,” Jet mentioned. “Everyone observed a chook I can eliminate?”

Cage’s pliably expressive encounter would make him a purely natural star of both of those paintings and numerous memes. 

You’ve likely viewed GIFs of him from the 1997 action-thriller film Con Air, his extensive hair blowing in the wind, his eyes 50 percent-closed, a blissful smile on his sunlight-kissed confront as he walks toward flexibility following a lengthy jail sentence. You could possibly have also witnessed the meme of his confront superimposed onto countless photographs of cats. Properly, Cage is a lifelong cat lover who phone calls Merlin his finest pal. “He loves speak to,” Cage suggests in this job interview. “From time to time he’ll soar into bed and he’ll hug me, you know? I’ll actually consider it can be my spouse.” 

The art in Uncaged will be on sale equally in human being at Cat Con and on line by using Cat Artwork Show. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit a few cat-relevant charities, with this new Cage-cat style with any luck , benefitting all of meme-type.