Odd Birds and Fat Cats
(An Urban Bestiary)
Turtle Point
Odd Birds and Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary)
By Peter Wortsman, art by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman
Turtle Point
My introduction to the delightful and expanding world of contemporary bestiaries began with Odd Birds and Fat Cats, a father-daughter exploration of cityscapes and the landscape of the mind. Out of these five bestiaries, Peter Wortsman and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman’s compendium of creatures is perhaps the closest in structure to a 12th-century bestiary, featuring full-color animal renderings and short meditations seemingly inspired by the intersection of survival instinct, mythic metaphors, and the wisdom found in between.
