Inspiration for a horror writer

Although I've been Chester Zoo a few times, I'd never spotted this statue before. It's called Noah and the Four Seasons by sculptor, Sean Rice (1931-1997) who used an imaginative interpretation of traditional religious and mythic themes. I find the sculpture fascinating, surreal and scary.









The way the moss is growing on it gives it an even more surreal appearance. It's almost Gigeresque in ways I thought, and the figures at the bottom look like evil sprites. And it's certainly one of those images that could give a writer inspiration, that's for sure.