I came across this statue along the canal in Gouda and it caught my eye and needed a closer look. I was a bit puzzled and looked around for a plaque of explanation: a fable or perhaps a poem, but there was none.
It is a statue of a man carrying a jackass on his back, heading in no particular direction. Made in bronze in 1998 by the sculptor Gijs Assmann, perhaps it was a play on his name and might have been called an ass before.
Assman translates to Ashman.
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