- Concept of "The Cat Guest"
The concept for my work "The Cat Guest" is inspired by the novel of the same name (French title "Le Chat Qui Venait Du Ciel", English title "The Guest Cat"), written by Takashi Hiraide, published in 2001. The novel's story is about the days of a young couple who has moved to an old but comfortable house with beautiful garden, and a cat visits their house often.

While I read this novel, it made me remember my grandmother's house. Because cats visited her house frequently as same as the novel. The number of cat visitors has noticeably decreased these days, but still, now, one cat after another visits her house. I had the too sensitive skin for keeping animals since I was a kid, also the apartment I lived prohibited to keep any animals. These situations let me not to make my dream come true, keeping animals. So visiting my grandmother's house was precious chance to spend time with animals for me, and playing with the cats was the biggest pleasure in her house for me as well because there weren't any toys for the child in her house at all.

Now my grandmother is very old, but still, some cats visit her house, fortunately. I secretly call them "Cat Home Caregiver", actually I feel sure my grandmother is helped mentally by the cats. I've written my original story based on my imagination about the conversation between my grandmother and the cats. I mixed photos of the cats who visited my grandmother's house and some photos of important motifs in the novel "The Cat Guest". Such as a window the place where the couple met the cat for the first time, also the window has a key role through the whole story. And a pine tree, the cat's grave. I would like you to enjoy their small conversation with the photos.

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