About
Despite owning a horse as a teenager, I’ve never grown out of the “I want a pony” stage.
The Super Saint was a once-in-a-lifetime horse and I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to own him. He gave me a great foundation and I went off to college feeling like a superstar. Unfortunately for me, college was a series of riding- and non-riding injuries, and afterward I took a couple years off riding to allow myself to fully heal. Although this worked in theory, by the time I got back on a horse, I discovered I’d developed a huge and not entirely rational fear of jumping.
Such is life. I always liked dressage better, anyway. As a friend pointed out, it allows me to indulge my inner perfectionist.
Now I’m working on relearning everything that seemed so effortless on the Super Saint. This blog is ostensibly a progress journal, but I ramble sometimes.
The text and gallery sections are part of a project I’ve been interested in working on for a long time. I’m interested in the way horses are depicted in art and literature, and by building these two databases I hope to start discovering some common (or exceptional) themes, tropes, metaphors, etc. I also hope the collections will serve as an educational reference for others who are trying to find horse-related works.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Contact me at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Random Image
Profile and Front Sketches
Leonardo DaVinci
Random Text
Horse
What does the horse give you
That I cannot give you?
I watch you when you are alone,
When you ride into the field behind the dairy,
Your hands buried in the mare’s
Dark mane.
Then I know what lies behind your silence:
Scorn, hatred of me, of marriage. Still,
You want me to touch you; you cry out
As brides cry, but when I look at you I see
There are no children in your body.
Then what is there?
Nothing, I think. Only haste
To die before I die.
In a dream, I watched you ride the horse
Over
[...]