Ring of Fire/Aro de Fuego (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

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Ring of Fire/Aro de Fuego (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist Tom Chambers (American, born 1957)

Date2010 (printed 2011)

Mediumpigment print

DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 8 in. (17.1 × 20.3 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012

Object number2012.15.7

DescriptionA young girl in a white dress stands juxtaposed next to another image of herself within a hula hoop like ring of flames at the right. A large stone archway looms behind the figures in the background. In the opening above the archway there is a large cross and lush groves of trees can be seen through the archway. The sky is filled with fluffy brown storm clouds and it appears to be twilight.
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Emuseum Notes

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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