By Thomas Thorspecken
Stella Arbeláez Tascón‘s sister Carolina had just moved her horse, Gold, into a new barn. The atmosphere was tense as she and her husband Tim worked to find the supply the water and get the horses out into the pasture for the first time.
A pick up truck full of bagged salt had to be unloaded for a mobile Equine Halotherapy business Carolina has started. Equine halotherapy, or salt therapy for horses, is a drug-free treatment that utilizes a halogenerator to disperse dry salt aerosol into a specialized room or container, which horses inhale to improve respiratory and skin health. This natural therapy offers benefits like clearer airways, reduced inflammation, improved lung function, enhanced stamina, and healthier skin, making it beneficial for both performance horses and those with respiratory or skin issues.
Stella wanted to stop by after sketching the protestors at Alligator Alcatraz to sketch a more peaceful setting. It turns out a horse barn can be just as much of a high stakes war zone.
Stella had brought her niece a box of wooden blocks which could be used to create and amazing fictional city. She kept her niece on her hip and then her lap as she sketched. Later she set her niece up with a water brush so she could make a painting of her own. That painting had plenty of red with a few splashes of swirling yellow.