SYLVIA ROSE AUGUSTUS
July 10 - 31, 2020
In 2012, SYLVIA ROSE AUGUSTUS visited the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary for the first time. She met a Spanish Mustang named Don Juan and connected instantly with him and to the other rescued horses. Their collective will to survive and the individual journeys they have taken to get to places of “safety” like the Sanctuary have become the main driver for her artwork. Wild American Equine are in peril; their habitat; bloodlines; and societal structures are threatened by overpopulation and public land management policies. Augustus’s main body of photographic work focuses upon documenting wild American Equine and their struggle for survival. Her work is a service to the community at large; sharing a story about how society has failed one of the last great American icons; the wild horse.
