Louise Bilgren, Denmark

It’s Quite True

One little feather may swell till it becomes five fowls.
• There It Goes
“She pecked herself with her beak, and a little feather fell out.”
Inspired by H.C. Andersen’s “It’s Quite True!”, my work highlights the danger of storytelling. It illustrates how a minor event, such as a chicken loosing a feather, can escalate into a exaggerated tale of five dead chickens.
• Vanity
“I name no names; but here is a hen who wants to peck her feathers out to look well.”
• I’m All Ears
“I’ve as good as seen it myself. It’s hardly proper to repeat the story, but it’s quite true!”
• From Henhouse to Henhouse
“So the story travelled from henhouse to henhouse and at last came back to the place from which it had gone forth.”
• Fallen feathers
“Five fowls,” it was told, “have plucked out all their feathers to show which of them had become thinnest out of love for the cock; and then they have pecked each other and fallen down dead.”

Silver, steel