These ducks are being raised, no doubt, to feed someone. But at this point, it is the duck that gets the meal. I layer this image, just as I would prepare chapters in a story. The first layer is the duck pen itself, filled with relatively complacent ducks, unmindful of their ultimate fate. A tree overlaps the duck pen, representing nature and growth and magically linking this layer to the last one. The second layer offers us two tubs and a bag, letting us know that these ducks are being well fed so that they will eventually make someone an appropriate feast. The last layer extends the scene as a fantasy – there is a lush landscape painted on the wall in the background, a painting that links directly to the tree that looms over the ducks in the pen. It offers an idyllic context to the image, an implied "Duck Paradise," sanitizing the inevitable ending of the story.