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Finished in 1996 the piece matches the other works of Deborah Butterfield, normally being different depictions of horses out of different materials, often metal scraps, actual driftwood, or bronze made to look like driftwood.

The detailing of the horse is meticulous. The texture and color of the bronze wood is immaculate making it incredibly difficult to distinguish from the real thing. This incredible level of detail is contrasted with the much lower level of realism in the depiction of the horse. The bronze branches come together to form the basic silhouette of a life sized horse, as with some contouring but overall it is relatively abstract. Unlike other famous bronze statues, or even other bronze statues around the Memorial Art Gallery the goal of this piece is very clearly not realism in any capacity. Instead there seems to be an interpretational depiction of the horse, almost like as few pieces of wood were used to still clearly get the visage of a horse.