As an artist I've always been more interested in what I have to communicate and being a person who has something worthy to communicate something interesting to say. And here, with my Hawa Cat, I am really talking about the life we started in 2020 with the pandemic. have really worked very hard to keep the joy alive, to keep the mind sharp, the observational skills intact. I'm trying to talk without talking. How is talking with her/his eyes seeing with the eyes. In a time when we were silenced and especially me, I was a violent crime victim in 2020 and I was just gaslit in the worst way. The police laughed at me and refused to make a crime report. The place where it happened denied it and said I could not come in there. A random 300 pound martial arts fighter hit me so hard I was severely injured for two or three years. And permanently injured. How do you walk in the world where you're supposed to pretend that you're all tranquil and fine.? You may be happy you may be observing all kinds of behavior you're keeping your soul alive. You're constantly reaching to find the joy that being alive comes with. Also I like to create joy and really good feelings when I'm painting.. I really want to add something beautiful to the world .So I find all of these things within myself even under the most horrendous circumstances.

As an artist I'm never thinking when I am creating art about what I am doing I just have a feeling an instinct and I have to express something. It was only after I was doing how a cat for two years that I understood what I was doing. I was specifically reacting to the times. Somehow a cat is a male and some are female and some are undefined. We live in a time where to depict an actual human being is fraught with social tension. Someone's gonna go crazy for some reason. So the cat just has fur. The cat doesn't wear any kind of jewelry or any kind of clothes so the cat is very free to express itself without all this extra scrutiny that we have now in our world. You can't put a cat in the box. The cat is elusive. The cat knows more than you do. The cat is not bothered by your views. Hawa Cat does smile and it's not a fake smile, it's a smile for you . As cliché is at my sound love is always there. In love is the most elevated emotion. I am a making a cat because I love you I want to make you feel a little lighter, a little bit of a wonder. There is so much in Hawa Cat and my first collection was all skeletons. I made that in 2020 when I was mostly kind of bedridden with my injuries, and I could not even believe that people and institutions were so cruel and frankly none of my friends or family were there from me at all. I couldn't believe it. So my first collection is skeletons and quite a lot darker. But eventually we got through that & cheered up & became fully happy even in these circumstances.

I think we were all traumatized by the pandemic, but through that we got remote work and did away with so many things that were just a lot of work. We changed so much to really envision a better world. Hardship and stress are the mothers of invention. Hawa Cat is this great intelligence mixed with fun play.

I am a Washington DC artist, and that is just a dumpster fire of politics and conforming behavior even if it pretends to be nonconforming. I dropped out of the art world went into the global world of digital art. Like all of us in 2026 OK maybe I'll go back to being a in person physical artist and I created a gallery that's opened a few times a month. I moved across town and spend a lot of time in South Carolina now. We have it changed so much frankly for me I'm completely the best moments and quite content. That's the real truth about Hawa Cat and me. Hawa means Eve in Arabic and Chinese. This cat is me. I am seeing everything I'm watching everything but I can't speak because I really just want to have fun arguing.

Of course this isn't just about the pandemic these are things that began early in life. But I feel like I have so much to say but I can't say it so I say it in art. Of course art is 1000 words so I can talk 1000 pages if you want me to please email me and I will. I really don't think anyone's gonna read this. That is my life I'm living a very full life but nobody's hearing about it in any words from me. I am also strange from my family which is a huge thing in this era. There is also the factors of everyone scrambling to grab the money and eliminating.As siblings and rightful so that they can have it all. I actually point the term terrorism against the citizens in 2024. its like we have lived so much trauma drama hardship and oppression in one way or another. Brutal divorces, families estrangement, hospital bills, financial struggle or ruin. Almost everyone almost has suffered greatly and it's not normal and it's fine everyone thinks it's just fine. People are losing their houses cause they can't pay property tax was permanently injured and nobody cared at all. It was so weird not even the doctors. It's a really weird world that we live in where people just don't care. And it's worse because everyone's living their own hardship. I knew that in 2020 everyone was freaking out and didn't really have the bandwidth or time worry about me. Or at least that's what I thought that's my world I'm sure your world is nicer. But there is a pretty big percentage of us out there struggled alone and in silence. So that's a lot of Hawa Cat. Even though it's a super upbeat cool cat part of it and part of that heroes journey to get to those good philosophy and feelings was going through the fire..... then another fire after that..... And then another fire after that

You have always created very peaceful and beautiful art a way of self soothing and a way to transmit to the world what I want for you. I honestly think there needs to be more cuteness in the world. Why do we elevate this dark edgy shit I used to be dark and edgy. I was that way because I thought I was supposed to be that way and then I would be more successful. But it really wasn't. I was always sweet and timid and loving and caring about everyone. I am full of love and I don't even know where to put it. I've put it in the art and hope that it transmit my message of love and cuteness and wonder while all kinds of things.

I painted 20 hour cat paintings over the last two years they're all smiling except for the last one isn't. Realize ballad to be smiling so I may be unhappy one was really seeing everything. My cousin who's been through a lot just like I have saw that one and love that one. He understood the message exactly "just looking out over the world and wondering what went wrong."

I also like fur, I like colors, I am experimenting with flat surfaces and kind of design with the body of the cats. I am also working with the justice addiction of realism with depth and a flat flat body. I'm working with the not realism of the cat body but the realism in the eyes. In the digital I'm working with AI backgrounds which I'm manipulate with painting because you can't get the AI to look how you want it. I work with digital art campaign a digital art. And that you may know that I got into this through the root of NFT's. I am a Blockchain geek 100%. I love tech and I love the future of the Metaverse I have a Metaverse curated show which is only cats. I have another one which is glitch art. You can find the link on my LinkedIn if I haven't come back to put it here yet. But I'm an early Meta verse adapter digital creator Blockchain mistress and so much that has gone into this.

That's why it's art because I'm an artist and I made it. It might not be the coolest and you know I'm not striving to be the coolest you know being cool actually irritates me. I had a one woman's show in Chicago in the best part of town they gave me like a penthouse apartment and I thought I was the shit I was doing big paintings and they were very expensive. And that art gallery and all the people I met everybody was so cutthroat and shady then I realize what what am I doing this for, I can spend my life making something that looks really amazing or I can just walk away and be myself and see what happens. So my whole art philosophy is just to be me not constrained myself to doing the same thing but I did 10 years ago, although a clear brand is your best past to success. But I'm always thinking what is an artist so what do I have to say if I don't have a message what is my point? I mean, actually cool art is a point in itself. I can do that and I like doing that and that's where the better money is it's just in this more aesthetic experience. And I love that very much. But as a person and as an artist and I'm always searching for more and there's a great quote by Picasso who said "of course my art is ugly the people that copy me have time to make it beautiful". So when we're searching to the next thing is not gonna be perfect. Fact I've been doing it for like five years now and I finally pretty great. So for me the life adventure. The life adventure to see what are we gonna do what are we gonna be. Money is really important and I hope to sell lots of these of Hawa merch.

But this is why it's art. Because I am an artist and everything I do in my life I do through this lens of creative searching and expressing.

This is my favorite quote about art. It just basically means that art is a quality in and of itself and it's really hard to define: A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways—by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art.
It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov’s crime.”

That's a great book if you've never read it and it's really short. As a child I had insomnia due to existential angst and there were no computers then, so I read hundreds of books. I was reading Friedrich Nietzsche n high school. That's because when you read books they start talking about other books other authors and then you have to go read those other books and those other authors because your interest has been peaked. I read so many books and I learned three languages fluently and I learned a whole bunch of things. Now I realize I wasn't quite normal so that's a lot of the silent cat. I have thousands of books in my head and deep philosophy knowledge and languages and I were in the Bible through like eight times it was into that at one point, then I was so many things are too many things inside of me inside of me and it's just something that we don't share in parties or groups. I threw away my TV at 18 so I can't relate on the normal level. This is me if you read this far I'm pretty surprised. I like to dance I like to go to the beach I like people I love painting and art. So there's a lot of balancing the head at the body maybe that's a lot to do with the cat in the eyes too. Like I said I hope you like the cat I hope it brings cuteness into your life that's really the main point. The main point is: it's cute but it's not dumb!!!

I don't have a cat. I have had a cat in the past. The cat is a metaphor, the cat is a vehicle, the cat is agile, and mysterious creature who will not do what you say and he probably knows more than you.

I'm serious if you read all this and you found it at all please shoot me a message somewhere or emailehennessa@ gmail. I'm writing this because there's probably somebody out there who and get something from it

Hawa Cat is not exactly a cat, but an iconic character — silenced, watchful, alive, and fully awake to savor life.

The story behind the art of Hawa Cat