PORTRAIT OF A GIRL AND HER CAT

MARISOL Y SU GATA DIXI

RADIOGRAFÍA DE LA PATA DE DIXI

This is an attempt to leverage the Internet to a solidary aim. I’ll tell you the story. Marisol is a young woman, and a “mileurista” ( meaning she earns less than 1000 Euros a month) as the 63% of Spanish workers . She struggles to make ends meet, living in an apartment without an elevator, in the district of La Ribera in Barcelona and has a cat, Dixi. Dixi, a few days ago fell into the street from the terrace of the building. Unfortunately I know what that is. I have a cat Taca, which I call the flying cat that fell twice on the street from the height of eight stories and one in an inner yard. Someone told me that cats have no memory, though the end up learning. Taca is the living proof. It’s been eight years since her last fall, and now she walks like an expert on the ledge. It is indisputable proof of Darwin's theories.
Marisol picked up his badly injured kitten, and without hesitation, took her to a veterinarian. Dixi was more than a week under observation, and the vet x-rays her, and made analysis and surgery in her left leg. Result: a bill similar to Marisol's monthly salary that, of course, she can not afford.
It occurred to me a possible solution. I made a portrait of Marisol and Dixi and we sold over the Internet to pay the vet bill. 100 copies numbered and signed by me, the portrait at a price of 10 Euros.

Enough time has passed and the story worked out. Marisol paid the bill and Dixi, cured, soon will have kittens.