The towering feline monoliths have been taken down on Tuesday, March twenty sixth, in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley after over a yr of enspelling passersby.
When we reported on the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) putting in a sextet of vocalizing cat statues in SF in 2022, readers rapidly reached out with photos and expertise interacting with the 3D-printed piece of public art work. The cats, every towering 9 toes tall and recurrently emitting a haunting hum — a purr, as some famous — glowed within the evening inside Patricia’s Green in SF’s Hayes Valley neighborhood.
They have been beacons of types, beloved by young and old, residents and vacationers alike.
These “Catoliths” have been organized in not only a easy, mundane, meaningless circle; their precise placement symbolized the idea of “Holofelinity” — of “Universal Cat Consciousness.” It was a tongue-in-cheek method to convey the notion that every one sentient beings, a cohort that features us people, are interconnected to one another. And, thus, we will’t proceed thriving and residing and being to the very best diploma until all of us are.
That universality did, nevertheless, have an expiration date. Yesterday, March twenty sixth, after sixteen months of summoning pleasure and awe on the 0.41-acre city greenspace, the adored art work was taken down.
“Some said it’s the end of an era,” reads an Instagram submit saying the show’s dismantling. “16 months of Cathenge at Patricia’s Green and the Catoliths came down today.”
The ten-slide submit confirmed the Catlothis bathed in a Spring of Deception sundown, every upright feline collared with a gem-like stone. Red development tape encircled the out of doors exhibit as staff… properly, labored on eradicating it from the concrete space. The full elimination of the six felines left solely the bases they perched upright on; small mounting {hardware} echoed the eeriness of stumps left from freshly lower timber.
“Erotica, Solara, and the rest of the ancient Cat Priestesses of Pussiopolis who stood sentinel in the dog park central to Hayes Valley have departed leaving only the concrete bases that anchored them,” continued the submit printed by [at]cathenge_cat_temple, earlier than hinting that the set up may seem elsewhere — “[where] will they appear next?? NYC? Miami? Pittsburgh or DC?”
“Proposals for all of the above are in the works,” the submit continues. “ I’m open to additional recommendations.’
TBD on what’s coming subsequent to the platform, however right here’s hoping it roars to life with equal vigor.
