A thought-provoking new sculpture by British artist Ryan Gander — The Cat, the Clock and the Rock — was unveiled on April 29 in the pedestrian walkway between Toronto’s Simcoe and St. Patrick streets, near OCAD University. It’s an eye-catching piece, a four-foot stainless-steel clock leaning against a rock modelled after one of the oldest rock samples on Earth, with a life-sized cat curled up in its shadow. But it’s the artwork’s backstory that reveals a side of Toronto’s Percent for Public Art Program that often isn’t talked about.