Details: 2006, pencil on paper, 29 x 21 cm.
Description: Pocomoco the blue-tongue lizard was blessed with a modest intellectual capacity, and could seriously comprehend only a few things. (String theory totally evaded him, but like all blue-tongue lizards, he was expert in snail theory and the musings on their deliciousness.) One thing that definitely perplexed the small reptile was that the creator of the entire universe could be bothered to even deal with him, or acknowledge his existence. It got more bizarre. This one they called Jesus loved him infinitely, beyond anyone's capacity to understand love. To give the Son of God a birthday party seemed the least one little lizard could do.
With his mates gathered, Pocomoco unleashed his ferocious culinary skills in a banquet of gigantic proportions. He knew he couldn't match what Jesus had done with a few loaves of bread and some fish, but he would do his best. Everything from groovy snail smoothie, snail slime soup, boiled snail innards (on a stick) and shelled snail kebabs, to mollusc-flavoured muffins and a delicate snail-essence birthday cake last of all. Pocomoco had assumed that if he liked snails, it was likely that the Messiah was partial to them also. So he feasted, and his friends politely pretended to feast, until the day was done.
"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." -Matthew 1:23
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