Hoarse Horse functions as a mnemonic painting, an attempt to visualise a sound that can’t fully take shape. Lawrence imagined a group of horses too out of breath to speak, throats strained and words suspended. She wondered what they might say if they could speak at all. The title comes from a children’s camp group name, its built-in wordplay echoing her interest in language that stumbles, wheezes, or barely arrives. For this work, Lawrence insisted on painting in a single layer. The exposed materiality and the immediacy of one uncorrected pass mirrors the quietness of the scene and the sense of voices failing before they begin.