Title: “BALADE A` CHEVAL” (Meaning journey made on horseback in French and pronounced
Size: 40” W x 30” H (unframed)
Story:
There is a dream
Of rushing wind
And riding over
The growing green
There is a hope
That rises in the heart
Of flowing manes
And pounding hooves
There is an idea
Of roaming the plain
Just you and your horse
Free and wild
There is a story
Of horses and glory
But now I am awake
And the dream is gone
There is a dream
That I wake up from
That I long to return to
And fly again
Materials:
Acrylic and metallic paints on heavy French water color paper, veiled in handmade Japanese rice lace bathed in melted beeswax and acrylic polymers, adorned with four 10th-16th century rare Chinese cash coins affixed with religious wax collected from monasteries, resting on 18th century Japanese calligraphy from a store ledger, with wood wrapped insets of contemporary Ikat silk, then bordered with antique Uzbek Suzani embroidery, wrapped at left and right with early 1800s Mongolian embroidery from a horse trapping, top and bottom borders wrapped in late 1800s Tibetan embroidery from a ceremonial garment, then wrapped with late a1800s embroidery from Varanasi India, crowned with late 1800s Chinese bronze lock and key of hand forged horse, resting on a pillow of antique New Mexico turquoise, all mounted onto wooden museum panel, with finished sides in Chinese Yixing plaster relief all copper leafed and acid washed and painted.
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