Masquerades (Equine Procession)

This sculptural assemblage stages a small “herd” of wooden, jointed creatures poised between toy, tool, and animal, their blocky muzzles and hinged legs evoking a deliberately engineered life. A fan of pale, gourd-like forms rises from their backs like buoyant burdens or inflated thoughts, tethered by taut cords that introduce a quiet tension between levitation and restraint. The warm grain of the timber and the exposed hardware turn craftsmanship into narrative, suggesting domestication and labor—nature reconstructed through human logic—while the clustered formation reads as a collective will, a synchronized push forward under shared weight. In the outdoor setting, the work feels both playful and unsettling, as if a new species has been drafted from salvage and memory to test the boundaries of empathy.