No Horse In Particular

This piece explores the relationship between representation and meaning. The composition is a mixed-media piece combining photography, digital illustration, and custom software development. The piece was inspired by William Mitchell of MIT, who observed, “The existence of horses means that you can take a photograph of some particular horse, but it does not prevent a horse painting from showing no horse in particular. You cannot, however, take a photograph of no horse in particular.”[1] This composition allows people to consider: At what point in the process of digital manipulation could a particular horse be replaced by no horse in particular?

[1] William Mitchell, The reconfigured eye (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992), 29.