This Is (Not a) Misplaced Cat Poster

A UK artist’s humorous cat poster finds its means world wide

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Illustration by Steve Chapman

Inspiration will be discovered within the unlikeliest locations. Simply ask Steve Chapman. The UK-based artist occurred upon a misplaced cat poster that spurred him to create an artwork venture that might find yourself spanning the globe.

“I couldn’t assist however discover how majestic the image was,” remembers Chapman. “Tall, proud, barely cross-eyed—the image made me wonder if the cat was truly misplaced or whether or not the house owners had been simply displaying off what an ideal cat that they had.”

He bought house, painted the cat, after which determined to show the piece right into a poster, finally inserting them in random spots round London. “Surprisingly, they elicited a exceptional response,” says Chapman. Images of his (Not a) Misplaced Cat posters had been popping up on social media, and folks had been asking if they may get entangled.

He determined to broaden the venture and see what number of areas world wide he might get the (Not a) Misplaced Cat posters put up in. Since then, the venture has taken on a lifetime of its personal with posters now present in 50 nations throughout all seven continents, together with Antarctica.

Not a Misplaced Cat posters have been popping up in each nook of the world, from Australia and LA, to India and South Africa.

“I type of have a mission to softly re-weird the world, to create sample interruptions, the place you’re going about your day-to-day life and abruptly one thing catches our creativeness and interrupts that sample,” says Chapman in an interview for Tripe + Drisheen.

“Who is aware of what would possibly occur because of that? It would make you assume, it would make you order a cat poster, it would make you stop your job.”

*Need to be part of this venture? If you’re prepared and in a position to put up a poster in a brand new location, attain out to Chapman, and he’ll ship you two posters—one so that you can maintain and one so that you can put up in public. All it’s worthwhile to pay is the postage. In return, he requests {a photograph} of theposter and its location so he can add it to the map. He’s particularly fascinated with continents, nations, areas/states not already lined.