Cats and Quarantine

Artist Statement

The subject matter for my DTC 201 capstone project will be the benefits of owning a cat during the quarantine. The direction I am going to take with this capstone project is to show the overall benefits of owning a cat. Such as lower rates of depression, anxiety, and stress reduction in people that own cats. As well as, how the companionship of cats can be extremely beneficial to the mental and physical health of their owners. Such as the elderly or people that live alone during the Covid-19 pandemic. The two media objects I have chosen to do are an infographic and a remix. For the infographic, it will show the overall benefits of cat ownership on one's overall health. The infographic will show two physical and two mental health benefits cat ownership provides to people who own cats. Whereas, my other media object will be a remix video that focuses on how pets such as cats improve the mental health of isolated individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Remix will contain information from ted talks on how cats are beneficial to overall mental and physical health in their owners, as well as cat videos from Vimeo to play over the audio from the TedTalks I will use as a voice over for the video. My overall goal for this project is to show how beneficial cats are. Not only for their companionship through these troubling times. But also for the lasting effects that owning a cat has on people as a whole.