Emphasis Preaching Journal

My living room contains a painting of the great race between a horse and a steam locomotive by the Canadian artist, Alex Colville. The artist has added an unusual twist. Rather than a race, the familiar scene is shockingly distorted by the arrangement of the principals. In Colville's version it is not a race; the engine and the horse are running toward a head-on collision. Disaster is certain as the two go full tilt at each other.