Japanese artist Atsuo Okamoto finished his 2006 Minnesota Rocks!: International Stonecarver’s Symposium work “Distant Memory” early, so he created this stray cat. The stray cat wanders near a path in Boyd Park in St. Paul.

Okamoto said this about the cat on his web site:

“I like the feeling of stray cat and I have thought that ‘I would rather be a stray cat than a lion in a zoo.’”

Japanese artist Atsuo Okamoto created “Distant Memory” in 2006 as part of the Minnesota Rocks!: International Stonecarver’s Symposium. The work features two large stones side by side, with the shape of the taller, black stone carved into the lower limestone piece. Okamoto then filled in the hole with paving stones from St. Paul.

Okamoto describes the work on his web site.