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Transfiguration/Transficuración (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)
Transfiguration/Transficuración (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)
Transfiguration/Transficuración (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Transfiguration/Transficuración (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist (American, born 1957)
Date2010 (printed 2011)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 6 11/16 × 7 15/16 in. (17 × 20.2 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 × 10 15/16 in. (34.9 × 27.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012
Object number2012.15.2
DescriptionThis is an outdoor image featuring a prominent arched stone wall with a floating transparent woman in a sheer white dress hovering in repose in the archway. The sky is full of brown storm clouds and it appears to be twilight. A lush grove of trees are in the background while a dirt road dominates the left corner of the image.
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The artist traveled extensively in Mexico twenty-five years ago and was attracted to the “sense of spirituality and magic” he experienced there. Upon returning in 2010, he found it much changed by global consumerism and made this body of work to express his appreciation for the Mexican culture he had encountered earlier and his concern over its apparent eclipse. His style in these images draws on the literary model of Magical Realism in which fantastical elements are mixed with recognizable everyday elements.
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