“Tremendous Machine” (Secretariat’s Stride)

Paintings & Animation by Jaime Claire Corum (see link below).

Celebrating Secretariat’s 50th Anniversary of winning the 1973 Triple Crown

Tremendous Machine (Secretariat's Stride)

With a clear nod to Edweard Muybridge's famous stop motion photography of the galloping horse, these 18 paintings represent 18 moments still-framed from a single gallop stride.  But not just any horse--these represent the stride of the great Secretariat.  Still framed from grainy 1970's slow motion footage of Secretariat breezing, it took much research to accurately describe his musculature on each still frame and capture the way his body uniquely moved at full gallop on the track.  The compression and extension that his stride exhibits is phenomenal, much like a powerful piston driven engine.  These still frames allow the viewer to analyze and "deconstruct" his beautifully efficient stride in a new and unique way.  If you follow the link below, you can watch these individual paintings recombined into a moving digital "painting" which cycles infinitely through the stride of the Tremendous Machine himself, Secretariat.