"All beloved toys earn scars from children's careless love.

But these bunnies' debased appearance belies more malevolent

and purposeful abuse than the normal wear and tear. Catt's

stuffed toys provoke adult empathy. And she explains the

bunnies' sad sagas in her 'Poison' series of acrylic and

hand stitching canvases. In these Tim Burton-like paintings,

Catt establishes the bloody, tragic back-story for her stuffed

toys' trauma. More common is the mildly distressingly, yet

still disillusioning, childhood experience Catt evokes in

her series of X-ray photograph-on-light-box works. In these,

she exposes the corrupted innards of stuffed animals, as they

might appear when passing through an airport X-ray. Children

traveling are often upset when separated from a cherished

stuffed toy, whose trip into the X-ray underscores its

existence as an inanimate object different from its empathetic

owner. Airport security searches toys for drugs, weapons and

other counter band but Catt's toys contain messages aimed at

the adults who tamper with children and childhood symbols. One

such horsey hides a key and padlock, along with the words

"betrayal," in its belly. Here, as in her other work, Catt's

creatures' pain is palpable but as inarticulate and heartbreaking

as all childhood hurts."