Sold (Galloping Horse)

A solitary horse surges forward as if emerging from the very earth, its body modeled in ochres and chalky whites that read like flashes of memory caught in motion. The composition is built from angular, timber-like strokes and a warm, clay-brown field, turning the surrounding space into a fractured enclosure that both contains and propels the animal. Heavy contour lines and rough, tactile paint application lend the figure a sculptural weight, while the lifted foreleg and streaming mane articulate a quiet defiance—an insistence on vitality amid constraint. In this tension between freedom and structure, the horse becomes less a portrait than an emblem of endurance, carrying its own light through a weathered, unsettled world.