Painting from Beauty & Beast series, Lea Fuchs, 100x100 cm,  Mixed on canvas, 2012   For thousands of years, felines were spiritual and cultural symbols for mankind that were worshipped and feared. Prehistorically, religions considered giant carnivores as a preferential messenger to another world. The wild cats have been regarded by humans with awe. Lions and leopards appeared in European cave art as old as 30.000 years ago. https://www.france-voyage.com/tourism/ photos-chauvet-pont-arc-cave-2095.htm Several

Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forest of the night. What immortal hand of eye, hath framed Thy fearful symmetry. (William Blake, 1794, “The Tiger”) We can keep this image of the Tiger like metaphor of the evident obsession of the mankind for the feline (wild cats), an obsession that has marked many prehistorically cultures, that has always accompanied the Eastern and Western culture from the Paleolithic trough