Artist Statment:
Wrangling a Wounded Horse explores cultural displacement in a Western context, toying with the excessive theatricallity that often occurs in Western media and culture. This piece plays with themes of American masculinity and the false glory of the West.
This horse serves as a representation of the American Dream and Westernized power, as many powerful figures would ride their “war horses” to glory in battle. The rider, myself, is shown on top, but rather than illustrate this image as a depiction of power; I am unstable, unable to grapple and control the horse. The horse is flat, an imagined and exaggerated image of the unstable myth of glory in the West.
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Medium:
Textile
Oil paint
Size:
77”x55”
