As some of you may know I have been enrolled in Goddard College’s Individualized BA program for the last three years.  My work thus far has been completely centered around my life with the horses, using this interest as a platform to approach culture, history, science, communication, spirituality, and human behavior.  I have now embarked on my senior year, which in the Goddard curriculum centers around a specific “senior project”. 

For this senior project I have decided to focus on a thesis topic;  Why are we as humans in this present time facing a way of life which is often disconnected from our authentic selves and from nature?  What are the components of this problem and how can horses lead us to a more integrated life?  

The parts of this exploration, other then writing and reading, will be a photography book (yes, I’m going to try and struggle through photography) with photos of my horses accompanied by 1 to 5 page essays dealing with the topics of history, equine anatomy, mythology, and other aspects of the human horse relationship.  My hope with this book is to create something that makes my work over the last two (soon to be three) years accessible to the reader.  No one is going to sit down and read a 100 page thesis, right?  So lets combine the power of imagery with the written word and see if we can inspire readers to think.

The other component of my senior project, with the hope that we can reach viewers in a gentle, inspiring, and hopefully thought provoking way, is the documentary film at who’s blog you are now reading this post.

Horses are powerful, both in their physical manifestations and as symbols. I invite you to continue on this path with me to see how deeply we can dive into the transformative magic of the horse.