Gordon Huether / Pony Up!

Pony Up! Proposal for Downtown Lexington Public Art Initiative Leadership Lexington, KY 14’ H x 8’W x 5’D Fiberglass, Glass, Concrete 2010 Pony Up! is envisioned as a freestanding sculpture. The sculpture would stand approximately fourteen feet high and have a footprint of eight by five feet. Seemingly suspended ten feet in the air is a life-sized horse that appears to be made of bronze. Visual tension is created, as there seems to be no visible structural support for the horse. The horse appears to be suspended in light, but is actually contained within seven layers of safety-laminated glass fins with laminated dichroic glass on each layer. Dichroic glass is highly light sensitive and changes color dependent on the viewer’s angle of vision and time of day. The colors change from red to yellow to ice blue. The multiple layers of glass and color make for a dynamic visual experience. The fiberglass horse is faux painted bronze. Bronze is a very heavy metal and the illusion of bronze suspended in light, ten feet in the air adds to the dynamic of visual tension. The sculpture sits on a massive poured-in-place concrete base. Huether took the timeless tradition of horses and heroes bronze statuary as his departure point while embracing a contemporary approach that gives the sculpture both a timeless sensibility and documents the time we live in by using techniques and technologies not available even fifty years ago.