Automata Equis is a small herd of unearthly horses, languidly traversing no distance across an immense playa. They howl with the wind, a lament of the freedom they lack to dance across the dust, still they carry their passengers forward into a reveling dusk.
The life size animatronic metal horses move, their limbs slowly reaching out and striking the earth in a stationary march. They will be sturdy enough for those curious enough to tame a dessert mustang to climb aboard and will have windpipes running through their frames to catch the whipping wind.
The animals are lit from within glowing at night and casting eerie shadows out into their environment.
Automata Equis invites people to investigate properties of locomotion and their participation in the world around them.
It is a study of rhythm, expectation and an observation of the forces of nature. Horses are known for their speed and grace,
Automata Equis upends that expectation with its decelerated pace. Abstraction leaves room for the imagination to take hold and observe the intersection between natural line and mechanical force.
