Take classically trained artistic talent and stir with an unique view of the world.
Drop in a shot of wit and mix with dashes of quirkiness and skepticism to create a cocktail that is as beautiful as it is shocking…
God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, found favour in God’s eyes.
With very specific instructions, delivered by a budgie purporting to tell fortunes, God told him to create a set of paintings for him and his family in preparation for an exhibition in a city recently devastated by catastrophic flood that could have destroyed every living thing on earth.
God also instructed him to bring into the exhibition, unclean animals, male and female.
These unclean animals and their stories resonated with Noah. They shared a special bond. He wanted to celebrate their uniqueness, and their faults, rather than making them the butt of the jokes at the bar.
People who have had a drink, find different things to be funny, lest we forget.
First he took Heidi, the cross eyed opossum born in January in Germany, soon to go display and no doubt become an internet sensation.
Then, the unnamed young orangutan he remembered seeing on a mid-afternoon wildlife show he watched hazily from the sofa whilst off sick, and never forgot…
And of course Buster, the three legged dog advertised from the RSPCA through a national newspaper.
Next up was Bobby, the one eyed cat currently missing from the very village that Noah lived in. He saw the advert in the local paper and decided to take Bobby with him, particularly given his own eyesight issues in the past.
And of course he couldn’t resist those three chihuahua puppies (with two full bodied brethren) born four years ago. Their disformities are apparently due to inbreeding, though they have benefitted from daily physiotherapy and now hop around on their back legs.
The frog he took was simply the result of an internet search, during which he discovered that around the world, frogs are found with missing or misshaped limbs, a striking deformity that many researchers believe is caused by chemical pollution. However, tests on frogs and toads have revealed a more natural, benign cause. The deformed frogs are actually victims of the predatory habits of dragonfly nymphs, which eat the legs of tadpoles. Depending on the duration of the stay on the ark, adult amphibians with one one hind limb appear able to live for quite a long time, apparently explaining why so many deformed frogs and toads are discovered.
Finally for this instalment, Noah chose Winter, a two year old bottlenose dolphin from an aquarium in Florida, who was fitted with a prosthetic tail to help her swim naturally after becoming entangled in a crab trap at sea.
The remaining ‘unclean’ will be revealed shortly…
