Philipp Bogdanovskiy

cat in law


A sculpture design made for a commercial purpose. it is based on a mixture of popular culture trope and marginal counterculture such as <<vory>>. in both asian and vory culture cat has a destinctive and sacral meaning.



while asian nations understand cat as a symbol of luck, sort of charm, in russian prison culture cat is a representation of thief or a con artist. they typicaly can be seen in tattoo design, wearing a cylinder and monocle. depending on a type of object they have in their paw, it can

represent a different expertise of

person. for example crowbar represent a burglar, and keys represent safe cracker, meaning he has a keys to all the doors.