There’s a particular strain of postwar Japanese print culture—circulating quietly through publications like Kitan Club—where the body, the animal, and the imagined self begin to blur. Not grotesque for shock, but for precision. A way of studying instinct through distortion. Beauty, held just slightly out of alignment.

This piece draws from that lineage. A stylized feline, rendered in linocut and hand-colored, suspended between play and something more coded. The gesture is familiar—a cat with a ball—but the framing suggests observation rather than innocence. The image becomes less about the animal itself, and more about the systems underneath it: impulse, repetition, control.

Printed on a seafoam Comfort Colors 1717 tee, the object feels soft, almost disarming at first. Which is the point. The surface reads calm. The signal underneath is not.

• Garment: Comfort Colors 1717

• Fit: Unisex, relaxed / boxy

• Material: 100% ring-spun cotton

• Color: Seafoam

• Print: High-resolution reproduction of hand-colored linocut

• Production: Made-to-order (reduces waste, printed with intention)

Instinct, observed under control.

10% of all proceeds are directed toward animal welfare initiatives.

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