Sustainably Produced, Museum-Quality Prints
Benefiting Wild and Rescued Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
If you love horses or somehow feel drawn to them, or if you simply care about the World we share, the best thing to do is go outside and spend time with horses, and let them work on you, let them transform your thinking. It can also help to donate discerningly to people and groups working directly to heal the suffering of horse and other beings.
Some of us can’t get outside with the horses as much as we’d like to, and the right kind of images can help us connect with them. Even those of us who see them everyday know the power of horse images. Our ancestors, just like so many Indigenous people of today, intimately understood this power.
Today we might call them archetypal images. Just as we have keystone species in certain ecologies of the outer landscapes, we find keystone species in the landscapes of the soul as well, spiritual keystone species that regulate the flow of spiritual energies in the psyche. Our ancestors took special care of these species. They wonderstood that such beings are good to think—that they attune our thinking to sacred realities, at times invisible and inconceivable. When we want to move forward in better way—out of feeling stuck or from the realization that a better way is needed—we can begin to think Horse, and a new path can emerge.
Having one of these images in our life is not about owning a work of art in any conventional sense. Rather, it has to do with creating a portal, inviting the dignity of Horse to enter into our life, opening up to the powerful healing and profound blessings and teachings the spirit of Horse can magnetize to us. You can sense this gateway in the eyes of the horses in these images, as they respond to the invitation to mediate between you and the great mystery.
Each print comes with meditations on relating to horses in more skillful ways, allowing them to initiate us all into a great rebirth. Letting horses become our teachers empowers us and them. Horses made this landscape. Returning to them can help us to heal ourselves, each other, and the land. These portraits have to do with opening up to the magic and mystery of Horse.
Many of these images came from my work as Philosopher in Residence at Return to Freedom, the Wild Horse conservation group. A minimum of 30% of the print prices (framed or unframed) go to support Return to Freedom and other sanctuaries, rescues, re-wilding initiatives, and conservation efforts. Your purchase will directly benefit horses, donkeys, and mules, going to feeding, care, and healing for them.
These images didn’t come from using a telephoto lens at a great distance. They come from a standard portrait lens, with the horses looking directly at someone they had a connection with. These are dearly loved friends. The images get minimal adjustment in Lightroom rather than heavy manipulation.
High quality photographic prints done on responsibly-sourced papers with non-toxic inks and coatings remain rare. An ecologically sensitive photographic print process should include all of these elements, and indeed should include the whole practice of taking the portrait in the first place.
Your custom print comes on archival, museum-quality paper made from cotton fibers recovered from rendering cotton seed oil. The paper maker uses no chlorine or optical brighteners. The printer uses only water-based VOC-free inks.
You can also have your print framed in a handmade frame made from reclaimed wood, for a beautiful wabi-sabi look that fulfills the ecological spirit of the images.
Price for prints is $149 for 8x10 or 8x12, $349 for 16x20 or 16x24, plus shipping. Get in touch for customized sizing beyond that, as well as pricing for framed prints. Typical cost for a framed print using reclaimed wood comes to $399 for 8x10 or 8x12, and $799 for 16x20 or 16x24, plus shipping. Email queries with the image numbers that resonate with you.
