Props From A Victory That Was Never Won

This work reflects on the instability of ‘victory’ and the blurred threshold between triumph and defeat. The carved wooden props, a horse, a bow, a hennin, and a dragon’s foot, rest on a velvet cushion like remnants of an imagined battle. Playful yet unsettling, they evoke both tenderness and loss.

Presented as decorative artefacts, these objects expose how narratives of conflict are staged, embellished, and retold. The absence of distinct identity between the figures collapses opposing forces into one shared psyche, suggesting that conflict is as much internal as external.

By extending elements from a larger painted scene, the work constructs a shifting emotional landscape of uncertainty and re-enactment. The props, poised as if awaiting further use, question what it means to win when every assertion of power reveals its own vulnerability and when the idea of victory remains perpetually subjective.