The Pax Box.

The idea

When a side table needs to be more than a side table.

Pax is a ragdoll cat. He has a very specific coloring — light blue, white, black, and various browns — and a personality that is somewhere between extremely opinionated and completely unbothered. He is also, objectively, a subject worth making art about.

The challenge was making something that felt like him. Not a photograph, not a generic cat silhouette, but something with his actual character in it. Stained glass was the medium that felt right — the way light moves through it has the same quality as the way he moves through a room. The cardboard and fur came from what was available and what made sense structurally.

The approach

Six requirements. One object.

The piece uses stained glass for the color fields and light transmission, cardboard for structure, and fur for texture and warmth. Every material choice was functional first and aesthetic second — the cardboard holds the structure, the fur provides the sensory dimension that a pure glass piece would lack, and the glass does the thing that nothing else can do: lets light through.

The composition was built around Pax's actual color palette and form, not an idealized cat shape. If you know him, you recognize him in it.

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