Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the back.
This oil painting is a cross section of an anatomical study of a horse's brain, painted with fine black lines across a random swathe of a red or orange glaze upon an intense canary yellow background.
On the right hand side a similarly pained, diagrammatically represented image of a horse's rib cage can be seen. On the far left hand side, a rearing horse. This horse is an appropriation of Jacques-Louis David's famous oil painting: "Napoleon Crossing The Alps" (1801-05), except what is seen here is the image of the horse without the rider, but also this figure is reversed on the horizontal axis.
Couched between these two related elements are two non-mimetic studies: the sinuses of a horse, in-situ, in the scull and a representation of a horse's field of vision. A distorted and simplified diagram of a horse’s thoracic system, illustrates the curvature of the spine, seen on the right hand side.
The solid darkened tincture crescents in the upper and lower parts show areas obstructed from vision in both eyes, the single hatched areas seen on the left and right of the diagram represents monocular vision, and the centre mid tone glaze describes the binocular visual field.
A Yves Kline style swathe of red or vermillion paint underpins these disparate elements, on a plain gold or canary yellow background, as if this is how the collective soul of all horses, Equus, sees and is aware of these disparate bodily parts.