A rat’s head and forelimbs continue into a long segmented body with many pairs of legs running down its length, curling round to a bare tail at the end.
It is drawn in careful anatomical detail — fur, whiskers, individual claws — as though it were a specimen plate rather than a cartoon. There is no text.
It is presented with the seriousness of a zoological illustration, which is what makes it unsettling. Nothing on the shirt admits the animal is invented.
For the surreal shelf, for anyone with a taste for imaginary taxonomy, and for a design that will not be worn to a family dinner.
