Commitment

Bronze, edition of 15
29" x 18" x 11"

"I’ve done a lot of gathering cattle off mountain permits.  The terrain is rough and timbered with deadfall and brush and it is easy for them to give you the slip.  We worked long and hard to gather this steer.  For a while we called him the ghost because we couldn’t figure out how he was disappearing off the ridge.  We devised a plan for one of us to track him along the rim while the other blocked escape at the bottom of the broken sandstone bluff that fell to the creek.  My brother in law is not one to let the fun part get left to another.  He tracked the steer along the rim and roped him just as he was diving over the top.  I had a clear view as Trav came off the ledge tied on hard and fast – totally committed. It was steep and slick, the steer lost his footing on a downed tree and went end over.  It was a wreck worth watching"