Diana Thorneycroft - Winnipeg, Manitoba
© Diana Thorneycroft 2015
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Black Horse (Let the Sorrow Set In) - 2015
Criteria
Technique: use a technique that is familiar to you Layout: based on historic example Text: self-generated Paper: single colour Colour: highly colourful Image: extracted from a single image Adjectives: strange or exotic; scientific or research-based; non-sequential; mysterious or coded; Wild Card - design an enclosure, box, or container as an integral, component of your project. Statement/Bio
I have been altering plastic toy horses for over three years, making the technique familiar to me (check!). The text on the horse's body is self-generated (check!), its surface more monochromatic than singular (half a check) and the hue quite the opposite of colourful (big fat zero). It is however, very strange, mysterious, coded, research based and non-sequential (check! x 5). The text inscribed into the horse's body was written like a stream of consciousness poem. One of the phrases is included in the title of the piece: Let the Sorrow Set In. I think it came from a movie I once watched, but I can't be certain. His limbs are malformed, his body filled with scars and tumorous lumps. Impaled into his back are rusty nails, and the horse's mane is sparse and seedy. His excessively long tongue is also impaled with nails, but capable of committing harm to others. This altered horse is not a visually beautiful animal, but he exudes a presence that commands attention. I am in the process of completing Herd, an installation of 100 horses, most bearing similar alterations. Contact Information [email protected] http://dianathorneycroft.com/ |