For these two paintings, Vincent Egon Verschueren revisited drawings he made as a child in primary school. These early drawings—often filled with violence, weapons, and heroic figures—reflect how deeply film, comics, and the news influenced his imagination at a young age. In Riding Horse and Three Guns, Vincent Egon isolates and reinterprets a single fragment from these childhood images: not the central figure, like a cowboy or soldier, but a secondary element—a horse or a weapon—is extracted and reconstructed in a mosaic of painted linen.
Through this act of reconstruction, Vincent Egon not only seeks to look at the visual language of his childhood but also to show how archetypes, symbolism, and mythology are internalized and repro- duced. Each work is both a tribute to and a re-coding of what was once seen, drawn, and re-seen as a child, an echo of early image-making that was shaped by culture and memory.