Representational Form in Design

This telephone is representing a human skull. Although this is representing and expressing a skull form, it still fully functions as a working telephone. The designer of this object used humor by explicitly contrasting the representation of a skull with the functionality of a telephone. Functioning objects representing something completely unrelated, are something humans are naturally drawn to- these objects are humorous and often conversation- starters. I found it interesting that the designer chose to make it black rather than the usual cream-colored bone. I also found it interesting that the chose to place the actual telephone on top of the skull rather than       against the ear, as one would assume.