horses
BEHOLD A PALE HORSE

Behold! A Pale horse.  Now, trace the curve of her spine: soft fingers meet fragmented bone beneath the unattended body of the soil in every pasture of dead horses.

Young girls are told there is no such thing as a white horse, that they must all be called ‘grey’ - a more familiar colour; further from Death or Christ’s horse and less reminiscent of bones or teeth or apocalypse or revenge… of bodies now wrapped in roots and growing flowers through clenched tails.

We fed rose madder root to grey (white) horses to colour hooves and teeth; now fertilized by your viscera (a horse’s intestines are very long). Now wrapping up around your tools/your coins/your thumbs.

 HORSES!!!  (html  interactive twine game, play above - click things!) was originally commissioned by Mateus Domingos as part of 'Careful Networks', an  an online exhibition hosted by Phoenix Arts Centre Leicester exploring alternative web protocols and careful networking on a peer to peer network (P2P), with the limitation that the work produced had to be smaller than 2MB. 

The 16mm footage for behold a pale horse is an extension of the WATERSHED project, and was exhibited as part of and then a harrowing at Wysing Art Centre. 

a digital film compiled from this footage and spoken word was screened at Kelder Projects in 2021 and as part of 'Precarious Structures' at ORIEL SPaRG in Oswestry, Wales in 2024.