unpetrified horse

The decapitation of Medusa is one of the remythologized myths I have been living backbone to backbone with for more than 30 years. One of the offsprings of the decapitation was the horse Pegasus.
Here is the myth captured as a stitchling, a work of art much like an active icon, walkable, danceable ... thinkable through. 

Please note: no hero is present.

On a few occasions I have looked out over the islands below Erythrai in Turkey, home to the Erythraean Sibyl. The islands are said to be petrified horses. Today I think the freezing has been undone.

Now it is soon time to ride the horse out on green pasture. 

Art by Jake Baddeley

when she rides the wild horse

...

dance origin in the paradise hotel of the world

with no words, with no song

i'm gonna dance the dream

and make the dream come true

                                            The Red Shoes, Kate Bush

Neon sign from paradise hotel across the street Is blinking on and off and on and off and on And the bird in my hand is promising paradise                                                   Paradise Hoel, Eliza Gilkyson 

I got a fine house, I got a deep well
I'm a woman who knows how to keep to herself                                               Paradise found, Gretchen Peters