Desire: Three Caravan Drawings and a Poem

Three recent drawings of caravans and pack horses, accompanied by the poem Desire — a meditation on movement, longing, trade routes, and the imagined landscapes between the Caspian Sea and Isfahan.

Three recent drawings of caravans and pack horses, accompanied by the poem Desire — a meditation on movement, longing, trade routes, and the imagined landscapes between the Caspian Sea and Isfahan.

The Caravan is a 2016 oil painting by Hans Heiner Buhr, painted in Tbilisi on two joined canvases. The work shows a rider with pack horses and herd protection dogs — one of the artist’s recurring Caucasus motifs.

My Saatchi Art profile has been updated with a focused selection of paintings from different periods of my work. Many of them are rooted in Georgia and the Caucasus — in horses, mountain passes, borderlands, memory, conflict and the strange beauty of post-Soviet landscapes.