issue 6
// art
Title: Let’s go, girls // Artist: Caitlin Rantala
about the piece
| This piece is inspired by L.E. Bowman’s musings on women and horses, where she writes, “A horse will turn feral if it loses its confines, is given enough time away from governing hands, dictated days. There isn’t a woman I know who doesn’t burn with the same faculty…We understand the gleam in their plum-purple eyes, the twitch in their whispered lips that says: kick the boards down, jump the fence, run.” Reflecting on those words, this work features a snapshot of my personal life, where during the dawning of a Tennessee summer day, I watched a mare gallop at full speed toward the furthest fence line, playing chicken with her desires. |
about the artist // Caitlin Rantala
| Caitlin Rantala is an expressionist oil painter, who explores girlhood, resilience, and authenticity through the lens of whimsical equine art. She weaves vivid emotional narrative through color and subject matter, inviting viewers to examine the juxtaposition in the power and joy of being unapologetically oneself—an art we so often lose in childhood. Rantala earned a BA in art and writing at Elon University, and operates out of her home studio in Nashville, TN. |
Instagram: @caitlinrantala
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*Author photo taken by Katie Rector.
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