[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text](in the artist’s own words)

Like the image of a palm tree, the horse image is rooted in a childhood experience. At roughly the age of ten or eleven, on a family trip to the Sonoran desert in Mexico, a horse ran away with me. The horse sensed my lack of control and charged off at a full gallop, leaving the Mexican cowboy and my brothers in the dust. After what seemed like a very long ride, the horse stopped abruptly with me still on his back (barely). I never did have the horse under my control, but I did outlast him. It was a growing-up experience. The “horse and rider” image is a metaphor for “the struggle to control” and “perseverance”. The tension or lack of tension between the horse and his rider is the focus of these works.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text][the_grid name=”Gallery-Horses-1612″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457755618150{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;border-right-width: 30px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]