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The image should produce a feeling of gorgeous unease — the viewer should be seduced by beauty and then disturbed by what that seduction implies. It should evoke the moral vertigo of spectacle continuing while suffering exists just beyond the frame, the way a Goya tapestry cartoon hides darkness beneath decorative charm. Informed by the tension in Degas's racing scenes — their cropped, voyeuristic elegance — but contaminated here by the amber pall of distant fires, channeling the uneasy grandeur of John Martin's apocalyptic landscapes where civilization and catastrophe share the same horizon.
A single magnificent thoroughbred racehorse in full gallop, muscles gleaming like oiled bronze, ridden by a jockey in pristine white and gold silks, captured at the moment of maximum extension on a manicured sand track....