Wild Sonoran – Maricopa, AZ - Fiberglass Horses on Waymarking.com

Artist: Maria Pour
Sponsors: State Farm Courtny Tyler
Location: at the west end of Maricopa Grand Professional Village

Pour spent a lot of time brainstorming ideas for her horse art. At first, she wanted to do something “daring and unconventional” but then realized it didn’t resonate with her, so she tried to think about a personal connection, what the city meant to her, what makes it so important.
She hasn’t lived in Maricopa her whole life, though her kids have their roots here. Her biggest connection to Maricopa was taking care of her mom before she passed away.
Those two had the strongest bond, and Pour wanted desperately to be connected to her and what she loved and enjoyed.
“She loved the desert,” Pour said. “She thought the plant life was so beautiful, that the animals were cool and mysterious.”
Pour didn’t like Arizona at first because of how dry and plain it seemed, but then she took a deeper look and saw “how gorgeous and intricate the cactus” were. She noticed the “yellow butterflies in the fields in the early morning when the water is going.”
She said that was where the inspiration for her horse art came from, in the magical moments. She made the horse seem as “if you’re moving through a kind of landscape.” She wanted it to have so much detail that something different could be seen every time it was looked at.

Physical Address: 41600 W. Smith-Enke Road, Building 14 Maricopa, AZ USA Horses Name: Wild Sonoran Web site: Not listed Background Story: Not listed

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