Swayback
Chicken

Mixed media sculpture with painted design.

Height: 28"
Length: 21"
Width: 10"

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As I grow older I find myself thinking more about childhood, family and the many times I spent on Martha's farm, a friend of my mother's. There was an old Dutch bantam Rooster which I had a love-hate relationship with. He often chased me to the point of exhaustion. Martha also had mules and horses. One old horse was swayback, no one rode him. In fact, he seemed very much ignored. He received most of the sugar cubes I was given to feed the horses.

I thought, "How sad you look with your big brown eyes and funny looking body growing old out in this field". Because of this, he received most of my attention and in the end he and I partook equal amounts of the sugar cubes. When I brought swayback rooster to the painting stage, I stood him up and found he had a remarkable resemblance to the old horse I shared sugar cubes with. I think in spite of Swayback's curved spine, he displays his painted feathers beautifully.

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