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Horse Runs Up The Mountain. 2008. New York. 18 x 13.2cm. Pen.
How does a goal
come into focus? And why does one goal
become more preferable than another? Is
it based on mere survival, this common churning and yearning that drives living
beings and flora to develop ever more effective approaches to living, of
improving their quality of life? Visible
here is a progression, from valley, guarded by an extending tree-trunk, up to
mountains glowing with future promise. A bird-like creature in the middle helps guide the
horse safely to its goal: the peak. But a horse has little reason to charge up
to the mountaintop. Something else has
caught its attention above the mountaintop. This is a fable of reaching beyond the
observable and for something one perceives to be within reach, but is perhaps
more a part of their imagination, which has created a powerful drive to climb
higher, to explore, to unite the solid internal nature of living beings, the
mind, with the will to connect with external forces. Connection with external elements, secular or
ethereal, suggests searching for a source of validity of one’s life.
