Square Cat

ship to 2m76dGL..apump

A cream and white cat lying in a loaf shape so rectangular it looks like a box.
  • corners stabilized
  • box instinct detected
  • volume reduced: none*

shape ratio

1.71 : 1

width
130.6
height
76.6
volume
100.0%
space saved*
0.0%

* cats are liquids (Fardin, 2014). the volume goes nowhere.

status: non-compliant

A white cat photographed through a grid of glass blocks, its body broken into dozens of mismatched squares.

shipment 0000 . before the protocol

Early compression attempts were unstable

Squaring a cat by cutting it into squares was tried first. Every square passed inspection. The cat did not.

An orange kitten with square ears sitting under glowing orange neon letters that spell the Korean word for a squared cat.

unit 0001 . certified in korean

고양이 . 고먐미

Korean Twitter, 2015: a dog groomed into a square became 네모네모 멈뭄미, and anyone who replied had to swap every round letter (ㅇ) for a square one (ㅁ). Cat, 고양이, comes out as 고먐미. The alphabet was squared before the cat was.