hello! it's me, horse funeral. my given name is jack, but i prefer erin. if you know me in real life, don't call me erin. i use they/them pronouns and i live in new england, and i've been making art for real since i was 14 years old under the pseudonym "disk rot," which i eventually changed to "death sigil" and finally to horse funeral. the name "horse funeral" was originally going to be "norse funeral" which is a burial practice where they put the body on a small boat, send it out to sea, and then shoot it with burning arrows until it lights on fire and sinks, which i picked because it was cool and edgy; i accidentally misspelled it as "horse funeral" one day, and decided that i liked that much better. i also started incorporating imagery of horses into my art a little while later, although this was completely unrelated to the name. i just think horses are very beautiful and awkward and interesting animals, and i appreciate them the way i would appreciate a modern art piece or something of that sort. within my art, i also focus a lot on transhumanism and non-conformity as a way of trying to piece together my own identity. i'm also somewhat aromantic and asexual, and so some of my art explores love and connection, or a lack thereof, as a way of trying to express my own inner feelings about it and slowly figure them out. throughout making art, i've slowly gone from making only serious art to making mostly satirical art to making something that's completely different. when i make art, i want it to make no sense and to be beautiful. i don't want it to tell you anything or show you how you're supposed to feel about it, and instead i want it to silently take your hand and walk you through itself. sometimes i have meanings or rationales in my own mind when i'm making something, but that doesn't matter, because how anyone else interprets it is bound to be far more interesting and beautiful than anything i could ever think of on my own. i love creating beautiful things for the sake of creating them but also so that people who see them can experience beautiful things too. i think everyone and everything needs to make less sense, and people need to stop putting themselves in boxes, and also we should make credit cards for animals. the world is constantly embracing me, and creating art is my way of hugging it back, of leaving something behind when i die, of continuing to hold it in my arms even after i'm dead. anyhow, thank you for reading this, i'm genuinely honored that you want to know about me and my art.

things i like

musicians
teen suicide
bjork
mount eerie
arca
jane remover
grizzly bear
lcd soundsystem

artists
stanley donwood
jean-michel basquiat
anu jakobsen
ville callio
alejandra ghersi
marc chagall
yoshitomo nara