The Freedom Ranch Gate
A named commission. The design can be built again — under its name.
A cut-plate scene fills both leaves — a galloping horse whose mane runs out into the stars and stripes of a flag, with a pine treeline and a buck, two does and a fawn grazing below. Above it, a band of short pickets follows a wave-shaped top rail that lifts toward the centre of the pair. Finished in black, with each leaf carrying the full scene.
The picture is one piece of steel rather than a set of parts fitted together. The horse’s mane runs out into the flag’s stripes, the stripes drop into the treeline, and the ridge the deer stand on carries off at both sides into more waving stripes — what would be a seam in an assembled gate is only a change of subject here. Everything left behind after the cutting is still holding the panel together.
It is a design for a long rural approach, where it will be read at a distance and against open sky: the cut-outs need light behind them, and a pasture or a treeline is what gives them that. Up close it repays a second look, the fawn beside its doe being the smallest cut in the whole panel.
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