My horse did survive the holidays without cracking but in order to give it the best chance possible to dry out, we're going to give it right to the end before we fire it. I was really keen to see how the surface treatment would turn out after firing and also to in some way advance with this project so I decided to make miniatures. I love the way the little rider with the short legs holds on so tightly to the horse's neck. It's as if it has been so much effort to climb up, he's determined not to fall off. I made a series of 5 miniatures showing the little man's attempts to get up on the horse. These I painted with the same mixture of black ball clay and rutile. Being smaller, it would be possible to get those fired before assessments too.
My original aim was to simply highlight the piece from the Hunt Museum. To do this I increased it in size and took it out of the cabinet shelf setting. With these miniatures, in order to progress with that idea, I took them into the outside world where they can be interacted with and noticed. In order to bring them to life, I made 2 very short and simple stop-motion videos.
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