Our bond with certain animal dates back to prehistoric times. Horses run across the walls of caves, painted with natural dies like ochre, iron oxide and charcoal. The caves of Lascaux in France are the most famous window to these artworks dating back to 15.000 BC.  
It is uncertain when horses became domesticated animal. In our current day and age we consider cats and dogs as pets and cows and oxens as cattle, whereas deer and elk are seen as wild animals. The horse is somewhere inbetween these states, lingering between domesticated and wild. 

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I created my own storyline based on the idea of what if the prehistorical ancestor of the horse, the eohippus, would have evolved in an underground system of caves. Eohippus translates to 'dawn horse'  It stood at about 30 cm, or three hands tall, at the shoulder. It roamed our planet during the Eocene era (55 to 58 million years ago) and is considered the most ancient ancestor of today’s horse. 

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The caves resemble a sense of security, a place where you can be yourself and express your true nature. In this forgotten place the horses live their own unique wild lives, unridden, untrained, simply being. And yes, they are also inspired by Jim Henson`s Fraggles, as they too live wild and free in a system of caves.

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