Pronghorn

Believe it or not, but this would have been the first piece of work in the ‘Native Spirits’ portfolio (if I had not run out of steam whilst working on it that is). I first started this back in Feb of 2004, when the idea for the portfolio itself had first occurred to me. It was originally much bigger than this, and depicted the young pronghorn spiritually searching, with the use of a feather, for meaning and inspiration, and the idea for the composition had come to me at a time when I had just got over a period of artist’s block. Now he is nothing more than a mere head, the artwork having been cropped down over time and thrown into the depths of the dusty drawer with no other purpose. That is, of course, until now. I came across him recently and, in a rush of motivation, decided to finally finish him off (that sounds so gangster). There wasn’t all that much to do, just the neck and background, which my scanner decided to kill during the scanning (my scanner is the gangster). So here he is, two years and a few months later… officially an experimental method piece. I’m sure I’ll find a use for him in time, perhaps as an icon for the actual printed portfolio, but until then I’m sure he’ll just be glad to see the light of day again!

(Artwork © Leona Preston 2004/’06)


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