A puffin with wings outstretched sits inside a geometric construction diagram — concentric circles, a square frame, radial guide lines and marked points at every intersection.
It is drawn in fine grey line work over the coloured bird, as though the puffin were being formally derived.
It borrows the language of a Renaissance proportion study and applies it to a seabird. There is no caption, and the joke is entirely in the seriousness of the method.
For birders with a design background, and for anyone who enjoys a drawing that pretends to be a proof.
