Nowt Ninja about this!

Now in my head, there's absolutely nothing odd about a man riding a giant, highly polished bronze turtle.

Especially when it's in Florence's Piazza Dela Signoria, and is called Searching for Utopia (by Jan Fabre)

See? Obvious, isn't it?!

(My somewhat tenuous link to MM118 is that some of the scales seemed diamond-shaped to me, but then I don't find huge metal reptiles in Italy weird either)