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# Still Life
- URL: https://lucia.ghost.io/issue-three-photography-award/
- Published: 2019-07-01T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T23:06:34.000Z
- Description: The winner of Lucia’s photography award for her series of photographs is a transformational fiber artist, weaving together photography, sculpture, scarves, dish towels, and leather goods. She is also a delight.
- Author: Laura Lowery
- Tags: Issue Three | Wild, #Photography by Cat Babbie, #Photography Award, #no-hero-image, #current-issue

“Photography frees me to capture the details that I notice. I know inherently they’re going to leak through in my artwork. I photographed a peony then wondered, should I paint it? I didn’t, but it became a dye color for a dress. Everything informs everything else. That’s why I work in so many mediums,” Cat Babbie shares.

“This series of pictures felt peaceful, quiet, restful, mindful. There is a stillness in them. I think they are almost more like a pause from the wild,” she reflects. “And in all of their stillness, the images themselves depict life. I mean, what could be more wild than flowers, lichen, and an orange cat?”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Dogwood.JPG.jpeg)

Dogwood

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Lichen.jpeg)

Lichen

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Mediation-Shawls--24-of-29-.jpg.jpeg)

Meditation Shawls

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Orange-Cat.JPG-1.jpeg)

Orange Cat

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Primroses.JPG.jpeg)

Roses

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/6f/0d6fd4cc-58b0-4524-b625-eb0eee151828/content/images/2026/08/Woman-on-Green.JPG.jpeg)

Woman on Green

*Cat studied studio art at James Madison University and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and three cats in a cozy, 100-year-old bungalow.*