Prayer Horse

2024 - 2025

The Prayer Horse works are an attempt at seeking safety. The series consists of 5 performance for video vignettes (Prayer Horse 1-5), found object sculptural works, oil paintings, and an accompanying short performance for video work titled Swallow the barn. Each of the video vignettes speaks to structural violence and objectification. I use my body to imitate sculpture as a way of hiding in plain sight. A desperate attempt at safety.
The oil paintings seek to give permanence to the key fugitive sculpture that gave birth to the prayer horse imagery. The sculpture exists permanently in digital form in the performance for video work but I needed something physical. The series explores what it means to lose a home — a house, a body, or a state of being.