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Pigment print by Tom Chambers, "Glass Flower/Flor de Vidrio (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando H…
Glass Flower/Flor de Vidrio (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)
Pigment print by Tom Chambers, "Glass Flower/Flor de Vidrio (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando H…
Pigment print by Tom Chambers, "Glass Flower/Flor de Vidrio (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)," 2010 (printed 2011)

Glass Flower/Flor de Vidrio (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist (American, born 1957)
Date2010 (printed 2011)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/16 × 8 in. (20.5 × 20.3 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012
Object number2012.15.8
DescriptionInterior scene of a dining room with a long table covered in a white lace table cloth. Standing upon the top of the table is a white spotted deer smelling a decorative glass flower that is sitting on the table. In the left background a young girl in a white dress is sitting on a chair looking off into the distance at her left.
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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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