Robert draws these horses as figures from a children’s storybook, half-statue, half plaything, with hair and eyes suggesting human expressions. It should be noted that there are two horses visible in the finished painting: a complacent toy-horse with a vacant or pleasing expression and the rearing horse with the wild-eyed bellowing head. The two horses together suggest a transition from machine to animal that involves a coming to life or awakening consciousness. The above image captures two iterations of the first “dumb” machine-animal. The sketch on the following page shows the “rebellious” animal that is no longer controlled by the machine.