Showing posts with label baker's daughter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baker's daughter. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter


The Owl was a Baker's Daughter. 9" x 13" acrylic on stretched canvas with a 1" profile by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
Inspired by the legend of the baker's daughter who was turned into an owl for not wanting to give bread to Christ.
Dark, dreamy surrealism in an industrial kitchen.

Friday, May 1, 2015

The Owl was a Baker's Daughter




Work in progress today.
The baker's daughter was turned into an owl, in the legend, for not giving bread to Christ. The legend is most notably cited in Hamlet, in a scene with Ophelia:


Well, God'ield you! They say the owl was a baker’s daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table.