The Head of a Horse
1994 - Present
Description
Horse Head – My First Experience in Sculpture Using Scrap and Metal Pieces
A welded assemblage in salvaged metal reading as an animal head in profile, oriented horizontally and projecting to the right. The cranial form is built from curved and angular sheet offcuts over what appears to be an armature of rod and angle iron, with fasteners visible across the structure. From the back of the head, multiple hanging strands descend and trail backward in the position of a mane. The surface finish is uneven, with blackened passages that read as oxidation, patina, or paint against lighter areas of barer metal. The work was photographed against a plain light wall, mounted or suspended, with no base visible in frame.
The surviving photograph is 425 x 404 pixels. Weld seams, fastener types, the specific salvaged components, any maker's marks, and the mounting method cannot be determined from it.
Artist Notes
Horse Head – My First Experience in Sculpture Using Scrap and Metal Pieces
Preservation Notes
STATUS Physical work destroyed, no longer extant. Recorded 2026-09-18 on the instruction of Sky, PAPA: the artist's studio and home were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes and no physical work in this collection is known to survive. This record documents a work that no longer exists. SURVIVING RECORD, CRITICAL One digital image, 425 x 404 px, 21 KB JPEG. Among the three weakest captures in this collection. Recovery of a better file should be treated as urgent. DIGITAL PRESERVATION Highest priority alongside Hanging Dreams and Hanging dreams II. Ask the artist for any original camera file, phone backup, messaging app copy, or social media upload, including poor ones. Check the Instagram account recorded on his artist page. Store whatever is recovered as an uncompressed master with a checksum and a copy outside the Content Lake. MATERIAL RECORD Scrap metal and iron pieces, 20 x 40 cm. ONE OF MANY Confirmed 2026-09-18 by Sky, PAPA: the artist made a great many horse heads. This record is one of them and must not be described as his first, his only, or as the piece referred to in his biography, unless that is separately established. An earlier note on this record treated the 2015 workshop in his biography as a dating conflict. It is not one. Different objects, made across years. The precise character of the 2015 workshop, whether he attended it or ran it, is recorded differently in his biography and in session notes and is not settled here. The biography has not been altered. Settle it with the artist before that sentence is quoted anywhere, since it is the origin story of his practice in sculpture. OUTSTANDING 1. Year created still reads 2019, untouched. A correction was offered in session but the year given was not usable. Open with Sky. 2. A usable image. Urgent. 3. The other horse heads. How many exist, whether any survive, and whether they should be catalogued. At present the archive holds one, which under-represents a form the artist returned to repeatedly.
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