Twenty photographs of Gilbert across a Thursday in April. Reading is happening, slowly. The lap is the actual subject of the set.
Brown tabby cats
Brown classic tabby with white — Gilbert. Photos featuring Gilbert alone.
Gilbert in his favourite box, March 2021
Gilbert in his favourite cardboard box: tabby, green eyes, paws tucked. The box is unchanged. The cat is loyal.
George the Moggie sleeps
George The Moggie
Gilbert in mid-February 2021
Nice Pillow 
Gilbert hit the brandy
Three photographs of Gilbert holding the line through February. The tabby continues, in his way, to be the tabby.
Gilbert & George
Gilbert and George
Gilbert on the wooden stool, May 2016
Gilbert seated on the wooden stool: tabby, white chest, paws tidy. The stool is his by convention older than the photograph.
Gilbert seated on the wooden stool, tabby with white chest, paws tidy. The stool is his by long-standing convention.
Gilbert in his Easter best, 2016
Gilbert with the blue collar and bell, looking down in mild appraisal. The bell is for our benefit. The looking down, his alone.
Gilbert on the pink cushion, March 2016
Gilbert on the pink cushion by the window: tabby and white, eyes shut. There at breakfast. There now.
Gilbert and his stunt double, March 2016
Gilbert at the window, beside a soft-toy understudy: marginally less alert than the original. The window is the day's only programme. Gilbert curates it.
Gilbert at the start of the day, March 2016
Gilbert on the white blanket: green eyes open by a margin. He registers the breakfast intent before the kettle. He is two minutes early, always.