I’ll tell you his story

Part of the series Tell Me About Van Gogh, this painting uses the familiar image of a cat to reflect on how artistic vision survives through transformation rather than quotation. Dressed in blue and seated before a cup of coffee, the figure is accompanied by a sunflower—an unmistakable echo that is not copied, but absorbed into a new, intimate scene. The work shifts the grandeur of art history into a quieter register of daily presence, where memory lives through color, gesture, and mood. Playful on the surface, it is ultimately a meditation on influence and on the enduring life of painterly seeing.