Deconstruction 1

Created: 2002

24" x 18.5" (unframed)

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and collage on Stonehenge paper

Price: $500.00 (contact for quote as framed)

Shown At:

2002: 'Jump': Senior Show, College of Visual Arts, St Paul MN

2002: 'The Momentary' Group show, Rogue Buddha Gallery, Mpls, MN

2002: 'The Momentary' Group show, Babylon Gallery, Mpls, MN

2003: 'Searching for Equiphany' Solo Show, Blue Moon, Mpls, MN

2004: 'Artist Exhibition' Canterbury Downs Shakoppe, MN

Pricing with artist's frame choice contact for quote
Includes plexi glass or conservation clear glass
Piece floated on conservation materials with hand applied silk paper
Moulding as shown



The study of horsemanship is a very diverse subject involving many cultures around the world. It is also the study of history in how we have interacted with horses in the past. When one searches through the past of horsemanship amazing horsemen and ideas surface and then become buried in the past waiting to be discovered again. While studying the Scythian culture I was struck by the dramatic change that has occurred in the realm of horsemanship. As our society became more dependent on technology, we became less dependent on the knowledge that allowed us to work with horses naturally. To compensate for the fact that we know less about horse nature, we have developed more complicated tools to control them. My triptych Deconstruction represents this change, while linking the past with the present. To accentuate the different approaches I chose to collage images from a horse training book which uses fear, pain, and complicated tools to force horses into submission. I then overlapped these book pages with drawings of the Scythians training horses more naturally.

This piece crowns the triptych and shows the Scythians teaching their horses to lay down. This depiction was discovered on a wine jug in an elaborate burial of a warrior king. It is rumored through the testimonies of the Greeks that a Scythian horse would drop to his knees upon losing a rider, thus allowing him to remount in the heat of battle.

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