Black line drawing of two faceted, origami-style cats sitting face to face, a geometric tattoo design with no body part visible.

Two geometric origami-style cats facing each other

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

The drawing shows two sitting cats in angular, folded-paper linework, with one on the left and one on the right, their heads turned towards each other. Thick black outlines define the faceted planes of the heads, bodies and tails, with a few interior lines suggesting folds. The image is monochrome on a plain white background, and the composition is centred and symmetrical.

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Nan folded the cats the night before the wedding, at her kitchen table in Hebden Bridge, with the radio murmuring the shipping forecast. She used the thick cream paper from the stationery drawer, the kind she said was too good for letters. Every crease had to be sharp enough to cut a thumb, and she made me hold the corners flat while she pressed them down with her fingernail.

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"Two sitters," she said. "Heads turned so they're looking at each other. Otherwise they're just furniture."

The bride and groom were my cousins, Alice and Tom, and neither had sat still for longer than a bus ride in their lives. Nan set the cats on the top table between the candles, facing inward, their ears angled as if they were about to say something rude about the speeches. Nobody could work out how she had got the joins so neat without glue.

Weeks later, when the caterers' bin was emptied behind the Methodist hall, one cat turned up caught in the wire of the fence. I took it home and opened it out on the table. The paper had no cut in it anywhere. Left and right were one sheet, folded back on itself, so the only way to make two was to let them keep looking at each other across the fold.

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