{"id":2124,"date":"2025-10-13T20:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:45:40","slug":"lost-cat-sign-art-seen-in-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/lost-cat-sign-art-seen-in-santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Cat Sign Art seen in Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was walking around Santa Fe’s Railyard Arts District when I saw this unusual “Lost Cat” sign. I’m assuming it’s a joke, or some sort of artistic statement, since the “cat” in question is an image of a stick. I didn’t call the phone number listed, and have blurred it out here for privacy’s sake, but I do find this to be a curious thing.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I thought I’d see what A.I. could do with this stick image, turning it into a cat … and here’s the best result that I came up with:<\/p>\n

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A strange looking cat created by A.I., based on an image of a stick from a “Lost Cat” sign in Santa Fe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought I’d try a couple more A.I.-generated images, from a different A.I. engine this time, these are a little less cat-like but kind of interesting in their own way.<\/p>\n

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Images of strange cats created by A.I. based on a visual prompt of a Lost Cat sign seen in Santa Fe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wonder how many people see this sign and actually call the number?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was walking around Santa Fe’s Railyard Arts District when I saw this unusual “Lost Cat” sign. I’m assuming it’s a joke, or some sort of artistic statement, since the “cat” in question is an image of a stick. I didn’t call the phone number listed, and have blurred it out here for privacy’s sake, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,36,48,50],"tags":[189,449,538,665],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-i-art","category-found-art","category-photo-of-the-day","category-street-photography","category-travel-explore","tag-cat","tag-lost-cat-poster","tag-new-mexico","tag-santa-fe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}