In history there are clear patterns that we actively choose to look away from, rather than engage. Our relationship with technology is one. [It has] a particular rhythm: one step forward, one step back. A help. A harm.
There’s a lot of violence in humankind’s shared history with animals, a lot of discomfort. I hope that, just as an honest war movie is inevitably anti-war, the tragic horses I write about move people to reconsider their own relationship to past violence.