Monumental Kitty

You have to respect a cat with a nine foot diameter head built of solid brick. Even Shaquille O’Neal isn’t that sturdy.
Word on the street is that the Monumental Kitty works just like the Sphinx: if you don’t answer his riddle he gets to eat you. During my latest visit to Corktown I visited him every morning, to feed him by incorrectly answering his riddle. But, selfless cat that he is, he let me live.
It’s an appropriate symbol of Detroit’s fighting spirit and civic engagement that such an inspired sculpture took control of the pedestrian overpass even as the old Tiger Stadium across the I-​75 got blasted into rubble. Thanks to the vision and technical skill of North Corktown artist Jerome Ferretti, the efforts of neighborhood volunteers, some funding from local businesses, and a very successful Kickstarter campaign, this nine-​foot-​diameter cat head is as good as nine-​foot-​diameter cat heads get.