Artist: sOnia Hensler
Title: Once upon a chicken foot
Medium: Mixed media on board
Size: 59 × 49 cm
Frame: Restored, ornately carved antique wooden frame, finished in deep glossy black. The frame bears a historic label from J. Pardo, a Chelsea-based picture frame maker, and its patina adds a sense of age and narrative weight to the work.
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"As a child, I was equal parts terrified and enchanted by chicken feet. My mother used to boil them, and I would stare at their gnarled shapes, imagining they were relics from a witch’s cupboard or the remains of something half-alive, half-cursed. They fascinated me, how something so grotesque could feel oddly sacred.
I grew up immersed in stories like Hansel and Gretel, where forests whispered secrets and witches lived in candy-coated traps. The boundary between horror and magic was always blurred in my mind. I often wondered: what if the witch was not evil, but misunderstood? What if her chicken-legged house was not meant to terrify, but to walk away from the world?
This painting inhabits that blurred space, where innocence meets unease. A girl crowned not by gold, but by bone. She is part of the tale, and also its teller."
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