Wild Horses
Personal memory by Vanessa R.
2022 CE • Back Bay, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
When my parents first moved our family to Virginia, I remember taking long drives to places like Back Bay, Pungo, Sandbridge. On those beautiful lazy Sundays, I recall multiple encounters with wild horses along the Back Bay Reservation Trail. I seek those horses today to no avail. I loved seeing wild horses in the forbidden dunes.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Don Sniegowski via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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