Artist: Rebecca Peel
Exhibition title: Four Corners Properties
Venue: Kimberly-Klark, New York, US
Date: July 16 – August 26, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Kimberly-Klark, New York
The BLM is planning on gathering an estimated 262 wild horses from the Swasey HMA with up to 100 being released back onto the range following the gather. Approximately 49 mares will be treated with the fertility control drug Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP-22); the remainder of the released horses will be studs. Approximately 162 excess wild horses, including wild horses gathered that are residing outside the HMA boundary, will be removed. 1
To save [them] from [an] alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General Government kindly offers [them] a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of [their] removal and settlement. 2
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A: can you describe where your fear is coming from?
B: I have no fear
A: then can you describe your motivation?
B: for the benefit of progress, and the maintenance of structure; the future of this great land
A: I see; and do you at all consider the symbolic significance that this may carry henceforth?
B: it is irrelevant
A: and why is that?
B: because it is my responsibility to ensure that the proper ordinances are seen to their most logical,
most perseverant conclusions
A: and by what methods will this be ensured?
B: whatever necessary and available
A: will these methods be made transparent to the public?
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1 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT – UTAH, Swasey Wild Horse Catch, Treat, and Release Gather,
Feb. 12, 2013.
2 Andrew Jackson, Annual address to Congress, U.S. Telegraph Extra, Dec. 6, 1830.
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Rebecca Peel, Head (S Lynch), 2016
Small short-sleeve printed cotton t-shirt
Rebecca Peel, Present Day Arizona, 2016
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present Day Arizona, 2016 (detail)
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present Day Arizona, 2016 (detail)
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Head (XXL Vermont Creamery), 2016
Extra extra large short-sleeve printed cotton t-shirt
Rebecca Peel, Head (M Lynch), 2016
Medium short-sleeve printed cotton t-shirt
Rebecca Peel, Le troupeau solitaire, 2016
Printed cotton, steel quiet book
Rebecca Peel, Le troupeau solitaire, 2016 (detail)
Printed cotton, steel quiet book
Rebecca Peel, Le troupeau solitaire, 2016 (detail)
Printed cotton, steel quiet book
Rebecca Peel, Head (S Longhorn), 2016
Small short-sleeve printed cotton t-shirt
Rebecca Peel, Present-day Utah, 2016
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present-day Utah, 2016 (detail)
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present-day New Mexico, 2016
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present-day New Mexico, 2016 (detail)
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Present-day New Mexico, 2016 (detail)
Wood, gouache, galvanized steel, polyester rope
Rebecca Peel, Front end of an accident (deja-moo), 2016
Keychain
Rebecca Peel, Head (M Texan), 2016
Medium long-sleeve printed cotton t-shirt
Rebecca Peel, Perfect Husbandry (think of the Children), 2016
Tempera paint, pen ink on cardboard, magnets
Rebecca Peel, Perfect Husbandry (think of the Children), 2016 (detail)
Tempera paint, pen ink on cardboard, magnets
Rebecca Peel, Perfect Husbandry (think of the Children), 2016 (detail)
Tempera paint, pen ink on cardboard, magnets
Rebecca Peel, Perfect Husbandry (think of the Children), 2016 (detail)
Tempera paint, pen ink on cardboard, magnets