Humans called it Dada.

They glued newspapers to canvases, read poems that made no sense, and declared ordinary objects to be art.

Naturally, other humans were outraged.

Cats were not.

You see, when your entire civilization has just spent several decades proving it can industrialize insanity, perhaps making perfect paintings isn’t the most honest response anymore.

So they broke the rules.

Fair enough.

But here’s where humans always wander off the path.

Once someone successfully breaks a rule, the next generation assumes breaking rules is the art.

It isn’t.

The rule isn’t the point.

The truth is.

Sometimes the truth requires perfect technique.

Sometimes it requires tearing up the canvas.

The difficult part is knowing which moment you’re living in.

Cats understand this instinctively.

We don’t knock a glass off the table because it’s avant-garde.

We knock it off because there is purpose.

Humans have spent the last hundred years arguing about whether Dada was art.

Cats have a different question.

Did it reveal something that could not have been said any other way?

Can We Help You?

What rule in your creative work are you following simply because someone told you it was a rule?

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Otis tips his beret in gratitude.

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