Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More
Found metal and wood
8' x 3.5' x 10'

Location: Elliot & Burnett

Value: $ 35,000

Artist Statement

Strong and willing horses were the backbone of agriculture for  centuries.  Their old steel plows and other equipment now lay about  the landscape rusting, mute testimony to the forgotten labor of  generations of horses and farmers.  In the shapes of the metal I  began to see the form of the horses that toiled so many years tilling  the soil.  I like the historical connection between the horse,  the  sculptural material, and those who worked the land before me.  I  think this horse is energized by the history of these artifacts and  the knowledge that it has become the plows, is free to run forever 
and will never have to work on Maggie's farm again.

Or perhaps the plows are amazed to become the horse, free at last 
from the impeding earth.

The horse's back legs and neck are turning plows, the front legs  are singletrees, the head and rump are parts of a seeder, and the  ribs are cultivators.  The upturned hoof is a nod to the modern  world, a piece of crushed car wheel,  and there are two pickaxes in  the shoulders to add the energy of the working man.

Doug Makemson
455 Fred Loggins Road
Commerce, GA 30530
706-424-1169

makemson@mindspring.com

www.makesculpture.com

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