Roots and horses

John Fou creates a vibrant scene in which slender horses seem to emerge from the earth as much as they traverse it. The elongated, incandescent bodies are modeled by a nervous mesh of colorful lines that fuse anatomy and telluric flow. The limbs extend into plant roots, placing the animal in organic continuity with the ground, as if the earth's energy flowed directly into their muscles. The warm palette —oranges, ochres, yellows streaked with acid greens—contrasts with an azure sky punctuated with archaic signs, suggesting a space that is both cosmic and primitive. Fou thus composes a symbolic vision where the horse's freedom is not escape but rootedness: a vital, vertical, and ascending power born of deep contact with the Earth.