If I came across this as a print in a shop or gallery, I'd spend quite a bit of time attempting to figure out what was going on. So much so, I would lose the pleasure of the initial visiual. It's a good thing that it is part of a silverware "collection" to give me the clues needed.
I think this idea of anthropomorphic forks is a good one, but the execution makes it a bit hard to see whats going on... I'm wondering how it looked in color.