Study of a cat and a glass

Pencils on paper / 30x21 cm

Excitement, here, takes the shape of a cat leaning into the promise of discovery — a poised arch of the back, a foreleg stretched like an arrow toward its quarry. The glass, cool and still, becomes an object of quiet obsession, its transparency both revealing and concealing. I let the lines remain airy, the pigments diffuse — rose and cream whispering against the paper — because excitement is not a heavy thing; it glimmers, it teases. The gesture feels suspended in a breathless pause, as though the world beyond this moment has dimmed, leaving only the subtle thrill of contact: paw meeting water, curiosity meeting sensation. In that fleeting interval before splash or sip, the scene hums with the delicate tension of desire just about to be fulfilled.