The Neko Century

Marguerite Kalhor is currently living a Californian track home suburb making life very interesting for the cat. This UC Berkeley is trying “to unlock the secrets of the highly-envied cat humanoid anatomy” as she puts it with this series of transitioned photographs. Currently she is focusing on cats, Greek mythology, video games and Civil War memorabilia which inspires her to “interweave fabricated legends with mass-produced/low-brow materials” to consequently “hyphenating the words felis”. Kalhor felines trapped in the depths of the painted photograph, giving them an invisible aristocracy”.

According to legend cats that are housed for too long, cats that have lived unnaturally long live, or have had their tail grow so long which splits in two, and eventually the feline would become a nekomata or "forked cat".

Bakeneko terrorize homes, shooting ghost fireballs, clawing at the appendages of passed out folks, people walking on two legs, wearing human skin to trick others, and sometimes eating their owners so they might take their place.When they are finally snuffed they can be about five to six feet long. If left alone with a corpse a bakeneko will reanimate them by leaping over the body.

In one legend A man named Takasu Genbei, realized that his mom's personality had shifted, leaving her in a moody state, but he blamed it all on the death of her eight year-old cat a month before. She had been avoiding friends and would often gather her food up and eat behind doors of the bedroom she had once shared with Takasu's father. Finally the son followed his mother and looked through a crack in the door and found a cat-like monster walking on its hind-legs and gnawing on a bird’s corpse.

Though the felines in Marguerite series have seem to lack the nefarious Bakeneko tendencies she intends to add more to the series, so there over all agenda remains to be seen.