Deconstruction 3

Created: 2002

24" x 18.5" (unframed)

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and collage on Stonehenge paper

Price: Sold

Owned by: Meghan Whitehead - Plymouth, Minnesota

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

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 was the last piece at the bottom of the triptych and shows the Scythians' war bridle. Their bridles were decorated with many different animals, with the belief that their horses would be imbued with the different powers of each animal such as a elk or a eagle. It was also made to be very functional and usable by a rider who needed little control through the bit and usually used a bow and arrow. I wanted to show the contrast to how the Scythian people empowered their horses with how other societies focused on how to subdue horses into submission.

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