Horse. White Circle

The form is reduced to silhouette: legs, back, mane. The mane and tail are drawn in gold leaf, everything else a single color.

A palm-sized toy raised to a metre and built in relief: mane, harness, dot by dot. The horse and the lady once shaped from clay and whitened with chalk now stand on gold — as what they always were: small household icons.

A dark figure on a white tondo, a gold mane.