Animals are the perfect metaphor to criticise human culture — they act as a non-biased and inoffensive universal language. Nine Lives identifies the link between our obsession with cats and their tendency to mimic our human personalities, as recently discovered by scientific studies. Through this construct and the use of clichés, the images are a reflection of us — a critique through the anthropomorphism of cats, offering a a light-hearted and humorous inquiry into the ridiculousness of human stereotypes that we associate with social identity.