SKIN HORSE
SKIN HORSE is the working title of a new portrait series that incorporates rabbit imagery. The title is an allusion to a character by the same name in Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit, who says “Real isn’t how you are made, it’s a thing that happens to you.” In this context, Skin Horse is perhaps also a call to our collective weathered condition.
oil on canvas, 3 feet x 3 feet
'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.’
- The Velveteen Rabbit
