armature: steel, polyethylene, hardware. musculature: scavenged rubber, wire & plastic. rigging: rope, pulleys, hardware.
10’6” x 6’6” x 3’ plus rigging.
A life-sized, flexible figure of a collapsed horse, suspended by ropes. It’s heavy- about as heavy as a horse. But if enough people (about 10) work together to pull on the ropes & pulleys, they can get it to stand… until they eventually give up and it slumps back down. I want people to feel the weight of it, the responsibility of it. The movements don’t look quite right; its impossible to coordinate.