BARBARA ROMAIN

A plum and maroon canvas covered edge to edge in cat sayings. LOVE, CATS and SCRATCH stand out in large stencilled capitals; everything else is written in her cursive hand and runs into itself — "cat-astrophe," "a cat may look at a king," "cat got your tongue?", "feed me, then leave me alone," "this is my house, I just live here," "scared of cats." Stencilled cat silhouettes in pale blue, pink and black prowl across the surface, and a violet triangle cuts through the middle over a band of acid yellow-green. The idiom is the subject: an inventory of everything English says about cats.