DISCONSOLATE JOCKEYS, 6/91, 48" x 60"
The jockeys are sad. Both have lost the race. The horses seem also to be commiserating. Jockeys' silks always intrigued me. They felt medieval, like heraldry, and probably do have a source in the heraldic colors of the noble person who owned the horse. The awkwardly shaped heads of the jockeys accentuate their loss... maybe even their losing streak. I like checkerboards and I like stripes. Both are such elemental designs. Yet I know of no perfectly parallel stripes of color or checkerboard designs in Nature. They are a human invention, and represents the most basic repetitious physical processes. Lub-dub, lub-dub.