Parliament of Beings

This intricate woodcut was inspired by Giotto’s painting of St Francis of Assisi giving his sermon to the birds. In my print, in similarity to Giotto’s masterpiece, all the birds are looking up in one direction, although the figure in my image they are looking at is actually removed from the picture frame and is imagined in the wings, stage left. There is one exception and that’s a tawny owl at the base of my woodcut looking out toward any viewer looking in, with his anthropomorphic eye - TH