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Jessie Li

The original photo was to create an image of putting two different kinds of memes together. Both of these memes are quite popular (kid pumping fist and Pusheen the cat), but one is loved for how much it describes certain feelings (kid pumping fist) and the other everyone loves because it's a cute and a fat cat. However, both a child and a cat are quite commonly seen on a sofa; I thought it would be an interesting contrast to see two wildly popular memes put in on the most regular, ordinary thing imaginable, of which, the first thing I thought of was a plain sofa.

I used Photoshop to cut and move out both the kid and Pusheen around so they were proportional to the sofa. I purposely made Pusheen "sit" on the sofa (a regular thing cats do), but the kid was harder to do because the meme is just of his upper body. It was difficult to proportion correctly and at the correct location; I settled on his location in the picture above because I thought the kid and the cat could be sitting next to each other, or cuddling, as humans are apt to do with pets, and the point of this piece was to put the "extraordinary" with the ordinary.