If it has witnessed, if it has witnesses, a city has lived. Their wealth and grandeur is often described with their structures and treasures. Yet the true wealth consists of the memories the cities collect…If memories are abundant, the history of the city is long, if they are scarce, the history of cities may only be as long as a “moment”.
Just like people…
Although it is mostly people who witness cities, people are not their only witnesses.
Sometimes a cornerstone, sometimes a tree, sometimes a mountain, sometimes a bug, sometimes a cat, sometimes a dog, and sometimes a horse may be a witness…
Yes..Horses.
That beautiful animal with a history nearly identical to that of humans, accompanying humans at nearly every historical period…
The black, brown, white, grey, and speckled…
The history of the “horse”, which has intertwined so much with mankind, which has become flesh and bone with humans, is the history of humanity.
The greatest witness of civilizations created by humans is also the “horse”.
Life has given it the task of “witnessing” what humans do. Sometimes as a huge and sometimes as a small statue of marble; sometimes as a terracotta figurine; sometimes as the relief on the surface of a sarcophagus; sometimes as the depiction on a façade, surrounding all sides of a temple; sometimes on currency; sometimes on an oil lamp; sometimes on a fresco; sometimes on a picture painted on a vase, and sometimes; as a genuine skull, horses have witnessed cities and people.
Horses, which have served as witness to the human adventure of thousands of years, have been transformed by people into “works of art” carried through to today.
Depictions of horses take the cities to which they belong into the current day and with a different perspective: “each horse itself is the city to which it belongs.”
