Through self-exploration in 1937, Leonora Carrington developed her own personal mythology and pictorial vocabulary. She created both stories and painting of bestiary and imagined creatures stumbled upon by female characters. Within her works, she had a white horse alluding to mythic, transformative and sexual connotations. When formed into a rocking horse it represented nurturing and magical powers. Left by her husband, Carrington fled to Mexico to seek refuge. It was there she matured as a Surrealist depicting woman’s domestic identity and spiritual longings with her enchanted scenes. A quote I particularly enjoyed displays Carrington’s strength as a woman and her feminism declaring, “Most of us, I hope are now aware that a woman should not have to demand Rights. The Rights were there from the beginning; they must be Taken Back Again, including the Mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal, probably of one’s own species… (Barlow, p215.)” (Barlow 1999.).
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