How much does the origin of an image -- it's original identity -- matter to meaning of the work incorporating it -- its new context and assimilated identity? Embedded above is a horse from Navajo rock painting depicting a massacre, though in this incarnation, there is nothing that earmarks or acknowledges the origin. The horse shape itself is barely visible. Even more invisible is a stylized dragon from the Bayeux Tapestry -- or lion/griffin, as it was hard to tell the animal's identity in the source image I found and I could not recall the real thing from seeing it years back -- reflected in a dotted outline and looking more snake than beast. Both source images reflect exterior contexts and battles/contests, and I've set them in the interior.
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