A sculpture featuring a stuffed black cat whose bulging eyes suggest an intense emotional reaction to something seen, sitting atop three microwaves, each containing an erased hard drive.
The work is inspired by the popular LOLcat meme “What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen,” which refers to viewers’ reactions to repugnant, disturbing, or horrific content and the mental image that a user cannot erase after viewing it. The work asks whether data can truly be permanently erased—from our hard drives? From our memories?