This oversized cartoonish sculpture is intended to draw customers into a Leiden ice cream shop. Overflowing with simulated melted ice cream, it obviously must be doing its job well -- the store was overflowing with customers. Both the sculpture and my image are based on incongruous exaggeration in scale as well as behavior. My image gives no clue as to the actual size of the sculpture – that is why I made it as I did. I leave that to the imagination of the viewer. The behavior of the kid is also an incongruous exaggeration – sitting in a puddle of melting ice cream is hardly a pleasure, yet he seems to be shoveling it in and enjoying every drop. The three lights glowing in the background add a theatrical context, and one even serves as a symbolic crown. It’s the kind of image that may make some queasy and others salivate. The sculpture may be based on Dutch humor, yet I found it amusing, and it certainly drew a crowd of hungry ice cream lovers into the shop.