In 1992, Marylyn Hamilton Gierow crafted Avselad kamp, a bronze sculpture located on Repslagargatan in Södermalm, Stockholm. It depicts a draft horse, a beast of burden that served humans for thousands of years but moved into the background during the 1900s as other power sources took over.
On the pedestal, an inscription reads: "Djuret vänder sig halvt om mot en svunnen tid, själv en levande länk mellan nuet och det förflutna." This marks the sculpture as a depiction of a draft horse's transition from a central role in human life to the background of the modern era.
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Written by Nik Frost
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