Riders (Family Dynamics)

This sculptural tableau turns the familiar comfort of a rocking horse into a precarious allegory of inheritance: a monumental, suited “mount” bears three childlike figures whose exaggerated heads and dark lenses suggest both innocence and willful blindness. The polished, warm-toned surfaces catch the gallery light like lacquered memory, while the checkerboard garment and rigid geometry of the base impose an adult order over a scene that should be playful. Poised between motion and stasis, the rocking curve becomes a quiet menace—an instrument of repetition—hinting at how power, habits, and fantasies are passed forward as entertainment until their weight deforms the body carrying them.