A black silhouette of a cat stands on a ladder, reaching upward with outstretched paws toward a warm yellow sun rendered as a semicircle. Fine radiating lines stream downward from the sun like spokes or rays, filling the composition with graphic energy and a sense of hopeful striving against a soft cream background. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.