All the King's Horses

17 x 22"
Painted and quilted cotton fabric.

All the King's Horses was inspired by the denial of global climate change and its effects by so many around the world. In the design, a fragile egg of Earth – both literally and symbolically a vessel of the four elements – lies bleeding into the gutter as the inhabitants of a great grey city walk on without stopping to help. Perhaps they don’t even take the time to look.

The simple nursery rhyme of the egg that couldn't be put back together is re-imagined with references to climate change, homelessness and a need for fossil fuels that is bleeding the planet. (A viscous rush of blood pours from the Middle East into the gutter in the design.)

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All the King's Horses