Fox with hen

The scene is inserted in a broad and detailed landscape enclosed in the background of the horizon by a backdrop of a typical Swiss village with vertiginously sloping houses and bell towers with pointed spires laid out in a frontal order with houses in festive and various colours, which offers the sense of a peaceful world, serene and without particular dramas. This iconographic setting thus expands the entire visual field of the picture which extends into a somewhat infinite spatiality, so that even the secluded image of the little fox on the run seems to become a marginal detail. All obviously accentuating the poetic nature of this work. The whole work is played out on parallel planes that tend to suggest "distance" up to the path on which the fox moves shrewdly, whose body is slightly diagonal, breaking up the general order of the shot, albeit without collisions or contrasts. There is no drama, but rather the search for secrecy, for surprise, for the still suspended desire to carry out a successful coup, to reach the safety of one's lair, in total solitude, in the silence of the hour for which not even one can suspect what is happening, confirming the fox's reputation as a cunning and stealthy animal.