Across five frames a figure is scene falling of a horse. The sequence is borrowed from a newspaper image of Zara Phillips. The dynamics of the image interested me, primarily, for the shift from a position of strong verticality, to one of total horizontality. The encoding of such coordinates within the History of Images interests me.

Beyond this the image was of interest due to the iconographical baggage that a figure on a Horse carries. The notion of the figures control of the horse being a metaphor of the control of the state fascinates me. Made around the time of the economic collapse, this images dynamic felt apt.

The figure on the right is a direct quote, restaged through performance, of Titian’s Actaeon (from Diana and Actaeon). Here he becomes the puppet master, revealing (and perhaps provoking) the tragedy which unfolds. He goes from victim to protagonist.