The Thirsty Horse

The Thirsty Horse belongs to the Stories series made of three-dimensional mixed-media works on vintage Bohemian crystal trays where personal history, ecological urgency, and the quiet language of objects converge.

A grey horse stands alone at the centre of the tray, still and alert. Around it, the resin spreads in warm amber tones: the colour of drought, of parched earth, of a landscape that no longer offers what a body needs. A cluster of amber and orange glass stones gathers at one end, catching the light like a mirage: water that glitters but cannot be reached.

This piece speaks of the wild horse, if any truly wild ones remain. Of the progressive loss of open land, of rivers diverted and dried, of the slow disappearance of the conditions that make free life possible. The horse does not move. It is not running. It stands in the stillness that comes before surrender, or before the decision to keep going.

The vintage Bohemian crystal tray, found in a Prague antique market, is particularly extraordinary in this work. Its deeply engraved crystal motifs, intricate geometric and floral patterns, become visible through the transparent resin: a hidden landscape beneath the arid surface, a reminder that richness once existed here. The tray is both stage and an exquisite handmaded piece of art.

The Thirsty Horse is a quiet work about an unquiet crisis: the ongoing erasure of wildness, and the animals who carry that loss in their bodies without being able to name it.