Senja Toivonen
BFA, Fine Arts
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Cats, Cuteness, Questions In Cats, Cuteness, Questions, Toivonen uses the aesthetic of cute ness and all its complexities to investigate the world of her cats. By examining the obsessive relationship between T hor, Zap, and herself, Toivonen makes us ponder how far cute aesthetics may be pushed, sometimes until it becomes a cause for concern. When she delineates her love for them in crayon and frames the drawings in washi tape, glues googly eyes to their kibble, or pens an academic essay about how Zap exemplifies the convoluted nature of the aes thetic she intensely studies, she wants you to stop her and ask: "are you okay?"
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