Canadian artist Destanne Norris will personally present paintings in Hohenstein-Ernstthal inspired by the story of the Ore Mountain goat

Two artists – Hanna Siebenborn from Chemnitz and Destanne Norris from Vernon, British Columbia – have never met. Yet they are connected through the extraordinary story of a white goat from the Ore Mountains.

The goat was once given as a wedding gift to the Siebenborn family. But the white animal escaped from the summer house in Pobershau and refused to be tamed. For thirteen years it lived freely in the valley and won the hearts of the locals – people met it on their walks, built simple shelters, brought food, let it ride the bus and even appear in school photos.

Hanna Siebenborn

It often stopped at the local greengrocer’s shop, where it loved to snack on kiwis. The goat became a remarkable figure of local history, and many linked it to the legend of the “White Lady,” who is said to appear in the Ore Mountains once every hundred years. The goat has since died, but the locals erected a statue in its memory.

This legend and the story of the white goat inspired Destanne Norris to create two large-scale paintings. In them, she captured the transition between the wild and the domestic world, between nature and human culture, embodied by the goat’s fate. Come and see both works at the exhibition You May Dream in HOT, opening on Saturday, September 21 at 5:00 pm at Dresdner-Strasse 26, Hohenstein-Ernstthal. Destanne will be present both at the Saturday vernissage and at the Sunday panel discussion You May Discuss in HOT.