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THE BLACK HORSE
 

A nine year old practice piece
Please note that the true height of this horse and rider are over nine feet on the canvas and that this horse is in the audience’s face.
If we think about these horses as segments of time* in lieu of what they stand for, the black horse carries the balances.  For me that means equality and justice.  Throughout history if we look at time and where various equalities meant more than ever before, that is the time we currently live in.  Think about it…womens rights, smokers rights, gay rights, human rights, racial and ethnic rights, world rights, human rights,…Who was the father of equality?  Who stood up for rights of equality more than anyone in history?
Martin Luther King
and he is the rider of the Black Horse.
“…a “BLACK HORSE” appeared and went forth, whose Rider held in his hand a “pair of balances,…”  
I am still negotiating whether to have this horse facing forward and reared.  I think that presence would be astounding but would take the faces further away from the viewer.  Here the faces are too significant in this portion of the painting.  The rider is higher than 6 feet on the painting without the horse reared and the perspective from below looking upward may interfere with the true message in this scene.
This is still very much a working piece.
 

 

If you noticed that the horse looks as though it has human hair, that is because it does!  This particular horse has human, black asian hair.  The hair here is not embedded in the painting at the mane but is in the tail area giving a raw example of both applications.  I have learned a lot in the past nine years while working with hair and incorporating it into a work of art.  Although it may seem an easy task, working with the fragile hair is often times trying and disappointing.  Please note that these new techniques are incorporated within the copyright registered with the U.S Copyright Office as new and experimental artistic techniques tied to the many never before seen techniques required to create The Revelation Painting.

*Please watch for the future blog on the Four Horsemen, racial classification,  and the segments of time they represent.  Along with the racial classifications of the horses, this blog will illustrate how races and time interact from past, present and into the future.  The coming blogs will also reveal suprising political figures within the painting (the second and mysterious painting hidden in plain site within The Revelation Painting who have a part in the ancient and ongoing battle of good and evil noted in the journals overview blog).  The Revelation Painting is a painting within a painting and the political controversy within the painting is tied to Truth-The Hemorrhage of Pigs!