Caging the Songbird/Enjaulando al Pájaro Cantor (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

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Caging the Songbird/Enjaulando al Pájaro Cantor (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist Tom Chambers (American, born 1957)

Date2010 (printed 2011)

Mediumpigment print

DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 8 in. (20 × 20.3 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012

Object number2012.15.11

DescriptionAt the right, a young girl in a white dress is sitting in a dilapidated room holding a black wire birdcage while gazing at a crow. The black crow is perched on a chair at center and appears to be peering at the birdcage in the girl's hands.
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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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