Grace Is Found Between the Saddle and the Ground
Jonathan Ching lassoes a portion of the cowboy’s rugged and mythic life as immortalized by the Marlboro Man. Titled after an Irish proverb, Grace Is Found Between Saddle and the Ground depicts a weathered leather saddle, the only evidence of a phantom rider and an equally phantom horse, floating through the American West’s big sky and billowing fields. Screwed to the bottom of the canvas, a rattlesnake made from a sheet of hammered copper slithers through the underbrush.
