Equus Refractus

A project about the horse as a symbol of freedom and transcendence

Equus Refractus is an author’s series of six graphic works created in a mixed technique: colored pencils and acrylic white on cotton paper.

Each piece explores how the image of the horse — a symbol of freedom, motion, and overcoming — is refracted while passing through different elements and states.

The series is united by Latin titles:

• Per Lumen — through light

• Per Tenebras — through darkness

• Per Ventum — through wind

• Per Ignem — through fire

• Per Somnum — through sleep

• Per Glaciem — through ice

In these works, I study how cubist and rayist forms can interact, while treating the horse’s anatomy with respect and preserving its recognizable presence. My aim is to let the breaking of form become not destruction, but transformation — a passage from wholeness to new facets and back again.

This series has become an experiment and a search for a new visual language, where the structure of light and space meets the living breath of the image.