Cat lady paints with poop

The New York Times Local East Village blog points us to Siobhan Meow, an artist and cat-hoarder who at one point kept 100 cats in her home.

"Since the mid-nineties, the artist has rescued felines and used them as muses for paintings, ceramics, and photography," writes Andrea Huspeni. "She even collaborated with one of them, Jupiter, by combining his organic material — fur, urine, and yes, poop — with her paints. After his passing this October, she is dedicating her current collection to him."

Her feces- and urine-enhanced cat paintings start at about $1,500. In this New York Times video, the artist talks about her beloved Jupiter and his talent for “thinking out of the litter box.”

You can view more of Siobhan's work on her Facebook page, and on Flickr.

• [knoxblox]

  Does it smell like cats in here to you?

• [Missy Pants]

  Toxoplasmosis.

  • [Robert Drop]

    Just this morning I was thinking, “You know what modern painting lacks?  Brain-infesting parasites.”

    • [Brainspore]

      Sorry, I’m more of a digital media guy these days.

• [Art]

  I surely thought that cat poop paintings would fetch a great deal more.

• [Hiland Hall]

  HA. Pretty sure she’s a Howard Stern wack packer…
  http://www.howard.tv/originals/wackpackbowling/cast/siobhan.jsf

  • [illflux]

    Correct. Any dedicated Howard fan has been grossed out by Siobahn for years and years.

• [DisGuest]

  Cat pee is the WORST. 

  • [Cameron Postelwait]

    what, don’t you like to get high?

    • [DisGuest]

      Huh? Is something else called cat pee that isn’t actually cat pee?

      • [Cameron Postelwait]

        hehe, look at you getting all excited.

        sorry, just a south park reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Boobage

        • [DisGuest]

          Ah, thanks. I knew I never got high cleaning the litter-box, otherwise I think Mr D would offer to do it.

      • [Marc Mielke]

        Actually, one of the byproducts of methamphetamine manufacture is the distinct smell of cat pee. They haven’t brought that up on BREAKING BAD, unfortunately. 

        • [DisGuest]

          Yuck.

• [Cameron Postelwait]

  don’t stop in for a visit if you’re pregos.  I’m looking at you cat middleton.

  http://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/cat-parasite-may-cause-give-yo.html

• [gws]

  no

• [angusm]

  She’s a crazy cat lady’s crazy cat lady. What an inspiration!

• [LydiRae]

  It’s articles like this that make me think that art was a stupid career choice.
  Imagine being a car mechanic, and competing with people who are creatively applying hamsters to engines and getting a ton of press because it’s so absurd.
  Clearly, I missed the day in college where they taught us to innovate by finding the craziest thing that nobody else was doing, and piss all over it so it’s ours.

  • [Brainspore]

    Yeah, she’s sure livin’ the dream!

    …no, wait. That’s not the word I was looking for. What’s the other kind of experience that haunts your mind as you sleep?

    • [LydiRae]

      Apathy?

• [chris jimson]

  Huh, no shit.

• [Alissa Mower Clough]

  Kind of like Louis Wain. And, really, it’s more professional to say the cat “died”. “Passing” is what they do when the litter box clumps.

• [Halloween_Jack]

  OK, I just have to say, even as someone who still has, somewhere, a copy of the first KISS comic book that has traces of the blood of all four original band members in the ink: no thank you.

• [JhmL]

  “MARRY ME ?”

• [ChickieD]

  She may be a crazy cat lady who paints with cat poop, but her kitteh paintings are great! I would like one in my home if it did not include actual cat poop in it, which is, call ME crazy, something I work hard to keep out of my house.