HORSES

20 Aug

Written By Kit K Fox

When suddenly…

JOHNNY

gets the feeling

he's being surrounded by

HORSES HORSES HORSES HORSES

Coming in

in all directions

WHITE
SHINING
SILVER STUDS

WITH THEIR NOSE IN FLAMES

He saw

HORSES HORSES HORSES HORSES

I’m a little ashamed to say I did not discover the phenomenal song Land by Patti Smith until I heard it performed by Jen Cloher at the Melbourne Town Hall in 2015. It was a one off Patti Smith Tribute show featuring Adalita, Cloher, Gareth Liddiard and Courtney Barnett which has been echoing in my head daily since that phenomenal night. It was definitely in my top 3 best gigs I had ever experienced in my life (another one was Midnight Oil at the Corner in 1997 and the other I probably haven’t been to yet…) I just now did a wee goooogle looking for a review or something to link to and discovered the whole show is available on Milk Records Yoo Toob! Holy shit. Unbelievable. So right this minute I’m experiencing the show for the second time. JOY. If you’re a fan of noise then I urge you to drop everything and watch it. PURE JOY.

Anyway… back to the point of this post… HORSES!

Of course I used to ride and of course I had a life changing crash that meant I couldn’t ride again. I gave away my beautiful mad paint gelding Sir and got on with not being a horse person. I spent many years missing their big stinky selves and their dirty hooves and the water drops running off their chins after a drink. I missed all of it. I can’t remember when but one day I had the bright idea that I could still LOOK at horses even if I couldn’t have them in my life again. As often happens looking eventually lead to photography and suddenly HORSES HORSES HORSES HORSES COMING IN IN ALL DIRECTIONS…

Here are some of my favourites.

K x