Marco Abarca
MA13
Maria's Unicorn, 2005
mixed media
30 x 24 x 11"

Maria was a girl who loved unicorns every since her grandfather, year after year, would give one to her for her birthday. They were so varied and beautiful it would stimulate her imagination.

One day Maria was invited to spend her summer vacation at a ranch. Upon her arrival she saw a horse, approached him and said: "If you had a horn, you would be perfect…"

Those days that she spent at the ranch she took it upon herself to give him lumps of sugar, brush him, ride him and caress him constantly but there was always something missing from this beautiful horse.

One morning upon arriving at the stable she discovered something marvelous, from the forehead of the horse emerged a beam of fantastic luminosity, it was so brilliant she felt compelled to investigate to better observe and she discovered that it was a magnificent horn.

Maria immediately attempted to ride him, with giant leaps he would traverse clouds like cotton, at which height they discovered lagoons which reflected the moon.