The three prints in this series are impressions made from the artist’s graphic novel ‘The De Chirico Horse’. In 1927, Thomas’ great-grandfather Hugh Compton travelled from England to Italy as a young man. He would stay here for several years, where upon his return he had acquired fluent Italian and a miniature carving of a wooden horse. This, it would turn out was a gift from the metaphysical artist. The novel’s narrative and the resultant prints weave the known and the fictional, touching on themes of provenance and the nature of story to degrade and/or evolve through authorship. Incongruent and anonymous figures move through seemingly boundless dreamscapes, sometimes tracing the heels of a horse. There is something consecrating in creating this vignette as it surmises the aura of the carving relative to the artist’s encounters with it