| Martin Herbert : Uffington : Watercolour with gold, silver & bronze powder : 8" x 10" (203 x 254 mm) : 1995 |
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Beneath my hands the planes Of his bleached shoulders move, And the bow of his neck bends to the flint-shaped head. I ride the chalk-white horse That moves over bone-bare hills, And from his streaming mane time falls away. Between the thighs of kings Who are now chalk-bare bones His ancestors, the stallion-herds once strode, Who, bending their bird-beaked heads, Are now a shrinking scar Across the downs from which time ebbs away. (Margaret Stanley-Wrench 1958) (Source - "Lost Gods of Albion - The chalk hill-figures of Britain", Paul Newman, 2nd edn Sutton, 1997) The original painting and the cards are in portrait format, with the white horse figure rotated 90º, and without the drop-shadow. For the prints, however, the image appears as above. I'm just not even going to try to explain any further ... See also Cerne Abbas |
