Thomas de Groot wrote:

> 
> Consider the cat. When looking at a photograph, or a painting, one wants to 
> understand the intentions of the artists (not always clear, I agree). Why 
> did he do this? Or why did he not do that? Here, the whole image is out of 
> focus except part of a paw. What is the intention? What is the message? What 
> does it tell me? 

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.

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?

-Jim

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