Does Spacecat Dream of Seraphic Mice?

Here’s a painting that is about a cat who may or may not be a real space-cat, and how when a cat who may or may not be space-cat looks through the mouth of its secret lair-cave dream scape it may find that the heavens are full of constellational mice. Seraphic is a nice word which I just learned in trying to find a word that rhymes with “electric” and means celestial, as in living up there in the space-sky. The dictionary on my Mac defines seraph as “an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity.” I’m not pushing Christianity here, though to be quite honest I am now rather curious about this ninefold celestial hierarchy. I had always thought Christianity’s mythology to be rather bland when it came to the cast of characters that got to live up there in space, but now it seems there is a ninefold!

This is an acrylic painting on a 16″ tall by 20″ wide gallery depth canvas. That means the canvas stretcher is an inch and a half deep and there are no staples or nails on the edge. It’s ready to hang without a frame, though the edges are unpainted aside from that paint that sort of slopped over from the front. If that’s the kind of thing that bothers you, you’ll probably want to put it in a frame.