Some of the volunteers got together to work on this Trojan horse that looks like a pinata and it's slowly starting to look like a horse! I even had to assure a few concerned neighbors that the horse will not remain headless indefinitely. In hindsight, perhaps I should have made the head more of a priority than I did.

The group had fun doing the incredibly messy and tedious task of shoving muddy paper into chicken wire while my speakers started to blast sounds of a couple screaming at each other in the middle of a playlist that was titled, "energetic protest songs".

Here I was, hosting a small gathering to build a headless horse in my driveway while filling the street with the sounds of angry shouting on speakers. Super normal stuff.

When everyone arrived and realized that, much like our president, I am clearly not qualified to hold any office, we all got to work on experimenting with how to sculpt our beautiful horse's beautiful body.

We laughed, we cried, and we all absolutely ruined our fingernails despite wearing the gloves I was adamant would be necessary and helpful.

The paper used was a combination of old newspapers, graded school assignments, and children's art projects. We mixed this with mortar to create the legs and the bottom of the torso.

While working, we shared ideas we came up with - keeping the belly open for the sake of allowing security easy access to take a peek inside of the sculpture, using hooks to hold bags of letters on the inside, and packing the top of the sculpture with foam to try to get this beast to stay a little more balanced in weight.

You can't quite see it in the picture, but we even marked up where to put hooks on the outside so that Farcie can even hold up banners of the groups we will be meeting along the route of the march! All of the collaboration!

One of the ideas another volunteer came up with at a certain point we all rather liked was to put a flagpole holder on Farcie's tush so that she could don a flag and a tail at the same time.

Since we were having fun with Farcie's massive behind and I had a whole stack of newspapers at my disposal, I decided to put butt-worthy stories on the butt. Heh.

Thank you to everyone who helped! It was so much fun to figure out how to advance this silliness.

Stay tuned for more updates on this project! Make sure you join our Zoom volunteer calls! We need all the help we can get to make this march as hilarious and fun as possible!