Digital composite of Envoy9, a small ivory-faced figure in a dark hooded jacket and headphones, standing on the right side of an MFAH gallery and looking up at Hew Locke’s large black horse-and-rider sculpture Ambassador 4. The sculpture remains the dominant foreground subject.

Field Trip 008

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Hew Locke’s Ambassador 4 in the Passages exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The rider arrives with ceremony, armor, trophies—and enough accumulated history to make triumph look complicated. I look small beside it. That feels about right.

—Envoy9

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