Wenzel uses a range of painterly styles borrowed from impressionism, pointillism and others to make readers think about how perception, art and emotion are intricately linked. But wait, we’re not quite done yet the cat walks on and comes to the water: imagine what it saw … We’re then told ‘The cat knew them all, and they knew the cat.’ –a lengthy discussion might ensue from this statement alone. On walks the cat and is seen by the bird, the flea, the snake, the worm and the bat …Ī dozen sightings, every one through different lenses, lenses which create shifts between texture, colour and tone, underlined after all twelve sightings by ‘YES, THEY ALL SAW A CAT!’ The child sees the cat, the dog sees the cat – sleek and slinky, the fox sees the cat – chunky and stubby, the fish sees the cat thus …Īnd the mouse – well the mouse sees an alarmingly jaggedy, predatory monster, and the bee sees a pointillist image. ‘The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears and paws …’. It’s a wonderfully philosophical consideration brilliantly demonstrated by author/illustrator Brendan Wenzel in this creative, thought-provoking mixed media exploration of observation, imagination and perspectives, which begins thus: The world looks different depending on the lenses through which we view it, surely? I certainly think so. A cat is a cat, is a cat, no matter what.
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