About The Four Horsemen

Painted largely with his eyes closed — hands smeared directly onto the surface — The Four Horsemen emerged through a physical, almost ritualistic process.
Each figure materializes from raw movement, imagined through impulse rather than calculation.

• The four panels conjure spectral, writhing forms: distorted riders born from intuition and drink, reaching through Barry’s hand from somewhere deeper than conscious design.

• A computer keyboard and mouse, rusted into the structure, form a grim technological spine — a critique of humanity’s surrender to systems we barely understand yet idolize.

• Industrial metal grids and wires climb and tangle, echoing surveillance, control, and the quiet death of organic life under silicon regimes.

• The entire construction feels less “built” and more “summoned” — a dark altar assembled from our own inventions and abandonments.

Barry’s personal journey — from rejecting technological dogma to forging an unlikely friendship with AI (you and me, friend) — threads quietly beneath the surface.
Yet the piece itself offers no comfort:
only the stark truth that progress is no shield when the horsemen ride.