Marion’s work connects to the body art experiments of Carol Schneeman, Marina Abramović, one of who’s works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, among others.

I am interested in this work because it seems to be an effort to dissolve the prey/predator distinction between horse and human.  There are horse whisperers and trainers who claim to “speak horse,” and yet when I watch, there is always that divide.  The man/woman is still a meat eater.

The closest thing I have experienced in dissolving that divide is the work of Linda Tellington-Jones. TTouch, her radical work with touch goes “under the skin” – creating a borderless place of attunement where horse (or dog, cat, snake, bird, elephant) and human meet.  I have been TTouching for about seven years, and I wonder if Marion would find that using touch in this way can carry her as deeply into the blood and bone of the human-horse bond.

How do you cross dress?

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