Service & Sacrifice depicts a plow left motionless in the field, the reins draped loosely as two horses stand between movement and pause. One horse looks forward, unaware of the farmer’s absence, while the other turns back toward the abandoned plow, suggesting a moment of interruption within the rhythm of labor. The farmer is not present, yet his absence defines the scene.

The sculpture reflects the moral framework often embedded within agricultural life in the American West, where work, responsibility, and community remain closely intertwined. The moment implies a choice made beyond the frame: labor set aside to help another. In this way the work considers service not as spectacle, but as an everyday ethic, where sacrifice often occurs in ways that leave little visible trace.