Complicated Friendships Cat 2026 Calendar
SKU: 53436
Ravi Zupa and Arna Miller created the Strike Your Fancy series in 2018 as a set of ten hand printed matchboxes. Since then, that original series has become a phenomenon across the globe! Featured on Bored Panda, Colossal, My Modern Met, Chronicle Books, and more. The series has also expanded to include many more designs like the ones featured in this calendar.
Measures approx.: 5.5" W x 8.5" H (closed).
- 28 pages.
- Hole drilled, ready to hang.
Ravi first created these Complicated Friendship designs in 2020 during the lockdown to reflect on what we were all experiencing: the bad and the good, the creativity and frustration, the loneliness and the intimacy. Later, he adjusted the messages on these, just a bit to make them more universal and timeless.
Ravi Zupa considers books the best way to experience art. He has spent decades studying books about the art, mythology, religion, and history of cultures from across geography and time. Entirely self-taught, Zupa looks to works by German Renaissance printmakers, Flemish primitives, abstract expressionists, Japanese woodblock artists, and Mughal painters for inspiration.
He also frequently incorporates religious iconography from Europe, Asia, and Pre-Columbian Latin America with revolutionary propaganda from around the world. With a distaste for ironic art or the thoughtless appropriation of culture, he integrates seemingly unrelated images in search of something universal. Zupa does not create any of his art digitally; everything comes from his own hand.
