In the 26 years that artist Ana Vazquez has lived four blocks from the huge Parque Metropolitano, a lot has changed. But one thing that has stayed the same almost all that time is that homeless animals, mostly cats, keep finding their way to the door of the house she shares with her husband and two children. And she keeps painting them.
“A lot of people abandon animals in the park,” says the short, 50-ish artist, with a twinkling smile and plump cheeks that bring to mind ... well, a cat. “22 years ago, I opened the door and a little ball of fur ran in. I threw him out three times but he kept returning, so finally I kept him. That was Michos.”
“In those days, it was so quiet here that the singing of the swallows woke me up! My garden was open to the street [now it is closed to keep her pets safely confined] so one day a wild cat came in and had kittens in the laundry. She left one day with all the kittens except one. That was Negrita. She lived here 12 years.”
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