Pig Races Series
The Pig Races Series is a loose narrative built around a fictitious sporting event. The series incorporates scenes from the event, portraits of the jockeys, and medals and trophies. The racers run through gates and soar over jumps that derive from croquet and equestrian courses. As in real life, the action of the pigs is driven by the pursuit of the promised reward, the apple. The various allegorical hurdles represent challenges we all face. Sometimes there is a play between the concept of mathematical perfection and the vagaries of everyday life. Sometimes the compositions incorporate the golden section. Sometimes there is a diagram imposed over the image. These measured hi-jinks express the way things can be perfectly planned in the abstract, but are subject to change as they materialize, as unpredictable in their outcome as the results of a race.

All works © Mark DeMuro.