Writing on Large horse head and Small horse head with the blue base, blue book and bit
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt it from indignities. As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks; I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hands upon their holy hides.
-Herman Melville, Redburn
Writing on Small head with brown base, two brown books and horse shoe
The horse shall be for man a source of happiness and wealth; its back shall be a seat of honor and its belly riches, and every grain of barley given it shall be entered in the register of good works.
-Mohammed
Writing on other Large horse head
Where in this wide world can one find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined
-Robert Duncan, To The Horse
The mixed media pieces have emerged out of time and travel. Every Summer I travel back to my parents’ ranch in South Dakota to help with haying. An old barn, too small for my fathers’ new equipment and too inconvenient for calving cattle stands quietly alone, but not abandoned. It is a wealth of treasures: Old books in wooden boxes wanting to be blown free of dust, metal buckets of rusty farm machinery parts waiting to be dumped out and re-discovered, Frames and chairs an leathers aged and cracked beckoning to be fee of the walls from where they hang. All of the pieces in these sculptures combine themselves to speak of the history of a working ranch.
The writings on the pieces are passages from books or poems that I’ve read and kept in a notebook
The drawings on the large resting horse are from a notebook found in my fathers’ barn amongst books. The notebook was full of carbon copy papers of architectural drawings, and drawings of horses similar to those of Leonardo Davinci.
-Meagan Kieffer
