Les Méchants Chat Animals - childhood nightmares

Les Méchants Chat Animals by Sébastian Ferry (age: 8)

Les Méchants Chat Animals by Scott Ferry
(Interpretation of my son Sébastian Ferry's childhood drawing "Les Méchants Chat Animals")

In this work I took my son Sebastian Ferry's childhood artwork that he did at age 8 called "Les Mechants Chat Animals" and I reinterpreted this nightmarish dream into my own work for the theme show "A Little Nightmare Grows Up".  This theme show, held at Galerie Le Repaire des 100 Talents in Montreal, invites artists to create an artwork using children's drawings of a nightmare as a source of inspiration. At this show I will be also showing other works that are in the same vein of childhood nightmares and malicious dreams.

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Information for the show:

A Little Nightmare Grows Up @ Le Repaire des 100 talents
From October 6 to 31, 2012
Opening Sunday Oct. 7 from 5pm to 9:30pm

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(514)946-9738
5867 St-Hubert, Montreal, QC
(Metro Rosemont)

A drop of her blood

"Elizabeth Francis 'learned this art of witchcraft from her grandmother. When she taught it to her, she counseled her to give of her blood to Satan (as she termed it) which she delivered to her in the likeness of a white spotted Cat.  Every time that he (the cat) did any thing for her, she said that he required a drop of blood, which she gave him by pricking herself.'  Sometime after, Elizabeth Francis presented the Satan-cat to Mother Waterhouse, passing on to her the instructions received from Elizabeth's grandmother. Mother Waterhouse 'gave him for his labor a chicken, which he first required of her and a drop of her blood.  And this she gave him at all times when he did any thing for her, by pricking her hand or face and putting the blood to his mouth which he sucked.'
Another time she rewarded him as before with a chicken and a drop of her blood, which chicken he ate up clean as he did all the rest, and she could find remaining neither bones nor feathers." (Chelmsford, 1566)

Only Cat by Scott Ferry
ink on paper
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