"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> A study in comparative sentience? The plane in focus defines the closest 
> part of the cat to the viewer and the framing of the shot places that 
> plane of focus almost coincident with the picture surface.  So the picture 
> space begins just at the limit of the cat's bodily space along the viewing 
> axis.
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> What humans sentiently perceive to be their personal, bodily space is a 
> very important thing to them psychologically.  At a very basic level it 
> involves a sense of self.  What about cats?

I mentioned to Mike and, re-examining the photograph again, I become even 
more convinced that the real troublemaker is the cat itself. Your comment 
here seems to confirm this. The cat's personality (as the expression of 
self-awareness which cats certainly possess) draws the viewer to its eyes in 
an absolutely compulsive way, which makes any other possibility of focus 
impossible, with the exception maybe of the point of its nose :-)

There are cases where the personality of the subject completely subjugates 
the artist's actions. I know this can  happen in photography, I think this 
can also happen in portrait painting.

Thomas

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