I've just talked to Lorenzo Llama and asked him about this. "Oh, just one of the many statues that my adorers raised in my honor. I didn't say anything before because you know the way I am, I am humble, but yes, it's a monument to my magnificence" he said.
When I asked him about the bizarre situation that was immortalized in said statue, he told me the story.
"When I was crossing the Andes mountains in Perú in my dramatic quest to conquer my beloved Nieve, I suddenly found myself in the life-threatening situation of having no internet signal. And I needed to send messages and selfies to Nieve, otherwise she’d be dead worried not to hear from me in six hours. And consecutive hours!”.
“But a llama of many resources I am, so it wasn’t long before my wit and my craftsmanship combined technology with ethology to produce the most stylish of solutions”.
“I visited a mountain village in the middle of the night and bought a small parabolic antenna… no, you are right, the shops weren’t open at that time of the day… yeah, let’s just say I borrowed one from a house… and then kind of forgot to return it… yeah, but now the owner of the house can proudly brag about Lorenzo Llama having his antenna!”
“Anyway, once I had it I thought about having installed it on my forehead to make it a portable antenna, but on a second thought I decided that would ruin my spectacular beauty and I couldn’t let that happen. So on a bend on the road I found a monkey. ‘There’s not much beauty to be ruined there' I thought, and convinced ugly Arturo –such was the monkey’s name- that if he let me install the antenna on his forehead he would be able to transmit his howling to communicate with his cousins the silverback gorillas in the Congo, a tall tale of the kind. So Arturo accepted, and I nailed the antenna to his skull”.
“Unfortunately Arturo was too short and the signal he caught was too poor, so I had to let him climb on my back, ala Bremen Musicians, in order to reach higher altitudes and pick up better signal. And as soon as I started walking, Arturo tended to fall off my back, risking ruining the antenna”.
“After a couple of hours Arturo discovered that he could keep balance by opening his arms wide enough, so the experiment was a success (would anyone had expected anything else from me?) and I was finally able to regain contact with Nieve and make her happy again by sending her pictures of my muscles in all their glory”.
“The bad side of it was that Arturo believed what I had told him about the silverbacks in Africa and he spent the whole day emitting an unsufferable battering of howlings in all keys and registers, threatening to leave me deaf. Or maybe the nails had reached his brain, who knows?”.
“In such glorious state I was when a Peruvian photographer immortalized the moment”.
“The photograph then reached the hands of Magnus Ikeasson, the guy who discovered IKEA, who happens to be a big fan of me. He thought the pleasure of seeing me like that could not remain in the hands of only a few privileged, so he started mass-producing these mini sculptures of me, Lorenzo Llama, the Renegade, with the monkey Arturo on my back (that’s one monkey I couldn’t get off my back), trying to keep his balance with his arms open, and the parabolic antenna installed on his forehead. That’s why you can find them now on IKEA… and of course a share of the earnings come to me as royalties for my image”.
“If you order within the next 10 minutes, there’s a 5% discount for you. Call now!” he finished the conversation by saying that to me.
Well, that’s what Lorenzo told me. Hope that explains that “weirdness”,
BSJ .