Two ice cream cones stand side by side on pure white, and instead of scoops, green spiny cacti grow out of them. Painted precisely, with the ribbing drawn and single spines visible.
I will not explain the joke, but I will say where it came from: a thing that looks pleasant and cannot be picked up.
I painted this almost as an illustration, with a hard contour and no background. With an idea like this, any background would be in the way.
The lightest work in the archive and the only one that makes people laugh. A small square, good in a kitchen or a child's room.
Oil on canvas, 60 × 60 cm. This work has been sold; it stays in the archive to show where the paintings available today came from. Similar motifs are in the oil painting gallery.