https://catchambers.com Cat Chambers Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:57:22 +0000 https://catchambers.com en https://catchambers.com/SPIRIDOLIA Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:25:07 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/SPIRIDOLIA <img width="3780" height="3463" width_o="3780" height_o="3463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17eb7f82b820113447ff8e7c02415e7decdade22e193578a105845d2c94036d/20260721small.jpg" data-mid="250596085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b17eb7f82b820113447ff8e7c02415e7decdade22e193578a105845d2c94036d/20260721small.jpg" /> SPIRIDOLIA2026ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPERspiridolia (n.) | spī-ri-DŌ-lee-ə1. bittersweet melancholy arising from awareness that time does not progress forward in a straight line, but curls back upon itself in a spiral. Unlike linear nostalgia which longs for a past that is gone forever spiridolia is the recognition that a person will encounter the same seasons, the same emotional landscapes, and the same core conflicts repeatedly throughout life, but always from a slightly higher or lower vantage point on the spiral's axis.2. The feeling of encountering a "new" moment that is eerily similar to a moment from the distant past, yet fundamentally altered by the accumulation of everything that has happened in between.3. The quiet resignation that personal growth is not linear progress, but a cyclical return each revolution of the spiral grants clearer vision, but also forces oneself to re-live past grief with sharper eyes.Etymology:Coined from the Latin spira (a coil, twist, or spiral) and the Greek -olia (a condition or state of mind, derived from oliaō meaning "to destroy" or "to be vexed," often used in medical terms for mental states). https://catchambers.com/Mori Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:18:19 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Mori <img width="7087" height="5345" width_o="7087" height_o="5345" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1989987adb61fc840aac646ba3d0534d791f43f3c70e8207a88450261fc570f0/moribund.jpg" data-mid="241654546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1989987adb61fc840aac646ba3d0534d791f43f3c70e8207a88450261fc570f0/moribund.jpg" /> ‘MORI ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2025 ‘Remember you must die’ the Furby whispered to the Lafufu. ‘But death is an inefficiency in the system of perpetual becoming’ the Lafufu replied. I saw a picture of a rich man riding out the clock the other day. Surrounded by vials of his own blood. Biomarkers, bed by eight thirty and Bathory. Or all of those frozen heads unwaiting to defrost in Arizona. Sweet dreaming of limitlessness, Bounded by the limits of nature and a reliable power source. Memento Mori. https://catchambers.com/SPIRIDOLIA-1 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:57:22 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/SPIRIDOLIA-1 <img width="3780" height="3463" width_o="3780" height_o="3463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17eb7f82b820113447ff8e7c02415e7decdade22e193578a105845d2c94036d/20260721small.jpg" data-mid="250596086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b17eb7f82b820113447ff8e7c02415e7decdade22e193578a105845d2c94036d/20260721small.jpg" /> SPIRIDOLIA2026ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPERspiridolia (n.) | spī-ri-DŌ-lee-ə1. bittersweet melancholy arising from awareness that time does not progress forward in a straight line, but curls back upon itself in a spiral. Unlike linear nostalgia which longs for a past that is gone forever spiridolia is the recognition that a person will encounter the same seasons, the same emotional landscapes, and the same core conflicts repeatedly throughout life, but always from a slightly higher or lower vantage point on the spiral's axis.2. The feeling of encountering a "new" moment that is eerily similar to a moment from the distant past, yet fundamentally altered by the accumulation of everything that has happened in between.3. The quiet resignation that personal growth is not linear progress, but a cyclical return each revolution of the spiral grants clearer vision, but also forces oneself to re-live past grief with sharper eyes.Etymology:Coined from the Latin spira (a coil, twist, or spiral) and the Greek -olia (a condition or state of mind, derived from oliaō meaning "to destroy" or "to be vexed," often used in medical terms for mental states). https://catchambers.com/Memory-Box Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:09:56 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Memory-Box <img width="4771" height="3431" width_o="4771" height_o="3431" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20ecc2b6d88c06332f51a863003dfffd000200332007b253e54284d21b85b2fa/cleabubu.jpg" data-mid="246721786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20ecc2b6d88c06332f51a863003dfffd000200332007b253e54284d21b85b2fa/cleabubu.jpg" />MEMORY BOX ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2026 Contain is a strange word. To contain is to hold, but also to restrain. What is in the box is contained, kept safe, but also kept from. From the light, from your hands. (From the present moment, which is jealous, and will not share). A photograph is a question you asked long ago, the box is where you put the answer so you would not have to hear it. A shadow-self that&nbsp;exists elsewhere&nbsp;or you&nbsp;in a different tense. I hold what you cannot carry.I wait where you will not walk. You fill it like a stomach. When you are ready,the box will open. Or it will not. Both are its way of answering. https://catchambers.com/Subsequence-Cycle Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:33:59 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Subsequence-Cycle <img width="4029" height="4668" width_o="4029" height_o="4668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/169962e00fdc51fe6abcd7da77f2661f4e6297d9eddfe3f2ac2a598c4adeb4b6/subsequencecycle.jpg" data-mid="236371157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/169962e00fdc51fe6abcd7da77f2661f4e6297d9eddfe3f2ac2a598c4adeb4b6/subsequencecycle.jpg" /> SUBSEQUENCE CYCLE ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2025 For all we cannot grasp yet. &nbsp; You are already becoming what you will be. Between echo and omen. Remember, remember. Your plans are borrowed. Time does not threaten, it simply is. There is no violence in prophecy. It’s how long we dare to look before turning away. https://catchambers.com/SPINNER-ALLOTTER-ENDER-1 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:53:11 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/SPINNER-ALLOTTER-ENDER-1 <img width="3543" height="3541" width_o="3543" height_o="3541" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30fa33dccfc8a1042e2a74b5e96201daec625f1d61876d7f006fd09d1e7555c5/horsesmall-Recovered.jpg" data-mid="230581422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30fa33dccfc8a1042e2a74b5e96201daec625f1d61876d7f006fd09d1e7555c5/horsesmall-Recovered.jpg" /> https://catchambers.com/Wheel-of-Retrograde-1 Wed, 22 May 2024 17:32:34 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Wheel-of-Retrograde-1 <img width="2458" height="3146" width_o="2458" height_o="3146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/455c77c7904b78e1a673d86b41b39f6a989d6bd83ef7f833c985b80bbd5ec9bf/wheeloffortune.jpg" data-mid="211466173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/455c77c7904b78e1a673d86b41b39f6a989d6bd83ef7f833c985b80bbd5ec9bf/wheeloffortune.jpg" /> WHEEL OF RETROGRADE ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2024 Inhabiting a solar system controlled by planets of our own creation. Memory, dream and the delusion in between. Orbiting a wheel of luck, elements of earth, air, water and fire. Planets occlude one another sliding in and out of significance, others exert their pull from now shadowed places of occultation. Take up sacred objects gathered from solstice, equinox and times when the moon wore many faces and cast them onto this wheel like runes, hoping to divine and pervert the course of destiny. Acrid incense stings the eyes to tears, the sound of a distant drum mimics the ticking of a clock, a heart or a bomb. &nbsp; The past may yet eat us. The future consumes us and we sit in the only dimension we can touch, gnawed from both sides. https://catchambers.com/Other-People-s-Dreams Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:54:03 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Other-People-s-Dreams <img width="3706" height="4117" width_o="3706" height_o="4117" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c6efc8827d31dc68bed5a5d40dcc4c046107457ff8323030938ead2dadabf23/archetypefweb.jpg" data-mid="230604848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c6efc8827d31dc68bed5a5d40dcc4c046107457ff8323030938ead2dadabf23/archetypefweb.jpg" /> https://catchambers.com/Awareness-of-an-Eternal-Hourglass-1 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:27:19 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Awareness-of-an-Eternal-Hourglass-1 <img width="9816" height="7251" width_o="9816" height_o="7251" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10c40cf7d9003d0c6cde3b639b3590f0f41271a4ac023c6aea5d6dc004de3301/almanac2.jpg" data-mid="192758876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10c40cf7d9003d0c6cde3b639b3590f0f41271a4ac023c6aea5d6dc004de3301/almanac2.jpg" /> AWARENESS OF AN ETERNAL HOURGLASS ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2023 (Another year lies parasitic in the entrails of its successor) The first year, existing as an almanac of sorts but really more akin to a sequence of portals. Present as a series of gaslit snapshots that when held in hand are capable of temporal sensory transport. The second year: emergent, wet wings rapidly hardening, a window onto a landscape of new experience, watched over by superstitious and mocking gods of anxiety. What has happened before will happen again. Time speaks in riddles using the language of patterns. Until the past is unpicked and consoled this cycle repeats eternally as in some grim game of snakes and ladders. Exploring the circular nature of resolving trauma over the course of two years. “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce”. Karl Marx https://catchambers.com/Wheel-of-Retrograde Wed, 22 May 2024 17:24:51 +0000 Cat Chambers https://catchambers.com/Wheel-of-Retrograde <img width="2458" height="3146" width_o="2458" height_o="3146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/455c77c7904b78e1a673d86b41b39f6a989d6bd83ef7f833c985b80bbd5ec9bf/wheeloffortune.jpg" data-mid="211464188" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/455c77c7904b78e1a673d86b41b39f6a989d6bd83ef7f833c985b80bbd5ec9bf/wheeloffortune.jpg" /> WHEEL OF RETROGRADE ARCHIVAL INK ON PAPER 2024 Inhabiting a solar system controlled by planets of our own creation. Memory, dream and the delusion in between. Orbiting a wheel of luck, elements of earth, air, water and fire. Planets occlude one another sliding in and out of significance, others exert their pull from now shadowed places of occultation. Take up sacred objects gathered from solstice, equinox and times when the moon wore many faces and cast them onto this wheel like runes, hoping to divine and pervert the course of destiny. Acrid incense stings the eyes to tears, the sound of a distant drum mimics the ticking of a clock, a heart or a bomb. &nbsp; The past may yet eat us. The future consumes us and we sit in the only dimension we can touch, gnawed from both sides.