TROJAN HORSE
To raid Troy the Greeks devised a Wooden Horse, of which's deceitful intentions, Laocoon warned his people. This angered Apollo, and, when Laocoon was about to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon hoping the god would disturb the enemy's route, two enormous serpents sent by Apollo twined and crashed Laocoon and his two sons. The Wooden Horse was taken into the city, Troy fell, slaughter and looting followed. To raid our world a modern cowboy devised a Horse infinitely more destructive than the Greeks' to terrorize, subjugate, and decimate our planet. This sculpture personifies Laocoon and his sons twined and crashed by Apollo's serpents. Poseidon's trident makes the thorax of Laocoon, the bottom is a dolphin's fin and a bull's head whose right horn is the tale of a snake in the shape of a lightening bolt from the stormy sea which bore the spiteful reptiles. Moving around, the piece shows the last survivors of our planet: the western cowboy and his horse (shaped like pentagons) with the Earth tied fast in their clutch. The horse becomes the dreadful serpents who give a Laocoonian death to their wicked rider.
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