This painting confronts the presence of restriction and separation through the dominant image of barbed wire stretched across the foreground. Rendered with heavy, tactile impasto, the wire becomes an immediate physical and psychological barrier, shaping the viewer’s experience of the scene.

Behind this harsh division, a solitary horse moves quietly through an open landscape. Its small, dark form contrasts with the surrounding space, suggesting vulnerability, silence, and life constrained by forces beyond its control.

Rather than illustrating a specific event, the work reflects on the broader condition of territorial division and suspended freedom. It speaks to endurance within confinement, and to the quiet presence of lives—human and animal—shaped by imposed boundaries.