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The Rising Tide by sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor
The four horses that form the Rising Tide exhibit are on the Thames foreshore near Vauxhall bridge.
While the muscled bodies of the horses are rendered in beautiful, anatomical detail, the heads are stylised and machine-like, recalling the mechanical "horse heads" of oil well pumpjacks: familiar and eerily alien-looking all at once.
Each horse also has a rider, making it impossible not to think of the four horsemen of the apocalypse – although the apocalypse these figures foretell is an environmental, rather than a Biblical one.
Two of the horses carry figures representing businessmen or politicians: shirts straining against full, suited bellies; arrogant noses tilted skywards. The other two riders are young children.
The Rising Tide by sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor
The four horses that form the Rising Tide exhibit are on the Thames foreshore near Vauxhall bridge.
While the muscled bodies of the horses are rendered in beautiful, anatomical detail, the heads are stylised and machine-like, recalling the mechanical "horse heads" of oil well pumpjacks: familiar and eerily alien-looking all at once.
Each horse also has a rider, making it impossible not to think of the four horsemen of the apocalypse – although the apocalypse these figures foretell is an environmental, rather than a Biblical one.
Two of the horses carry figures representing businessmen or politicians: shirts straining against full, suited bellies; arrogant noses tilted skywards. The other two riders are young children.