Unfamiliar Melody/Melodía Desconocida (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

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Unfamiliar Melody/Melodía Desconocida (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist Tom Chambers (American, born 1957)

Date2010 (printed 2011)

Mediumpigment print

DimensionsImage: 8 × 6 1/4 in. (20.3 × 15.9 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012

Object number2012.15.10

DescriptionA woman in a long white dress stands in a bare and dimly lit room while passing her hand over a music score painted in black on the wall at the right. The door to the room is open in the central background and an ornate cushioned chair with a violin resting on the seat is at the lower left of the image.
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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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