"If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a
"Comets are like cats. They have tails, and they do
precisely what they want." ~ David Levy
It was just after World War I that Louis noticed people were not purchasing cat pictures as they once did, without a job, Louis fell into poverty. Louis lived with his three sisters for a time before he fell into a depression he couldn't escape from. He sought help and was told that he had schizophrenia. He was 57 years old and soon without funds found himself in a mental hospital. The doctors did not understand his art. His art was changing as Louis started perceiving colors around the cats he was drawing (some would call them auras). All physical bodies have an energy field surrounding them. Some people have the ability to perceive these fields. The invisible electromagnetic fields are layered and and represent a different part of the color scheme.
Louis told his doctors that he could see and feel
electromagnetic currents surrounding living bodies that others seemingly
could not see. Louis believed his mind was being sensitized and
transformed by these currents. Louis's doctors pronounced him insane in
1924 and he was admitted to the pauper's wing of a
mental hospital in Tooting. The picture above
is a Louis Wayne representation of a electromagnetic field surrounding a
cat. Yet, his doctors took this picture to mean his condition was
worsening. I think Louis was trying to paint a picture of something that
he was seeing interally or externally.