Hearts and Bones (inbunden, eng)

For about twenty-fiveyears Tom Chambers has explored the medium of photography to create photomontages which are inspired largely from travel in the American West, NewEngland, Mexico, Italy, and Iceland.  Photomontageis Tom’s unique way to present unspoken stories which illustrate fleetingmoments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer.

Thefeelings might range from tranquility to turbulence. Through the intentionaluse of magic realism, the photomontages look believable, but improbable. Eachphotomontage is carefully constructed, using both images that have been plannedand those that unexpectedly enhance the story.

Tom desires to move beyond documentation of the present, and rather seekto fuse reality and fantasy in musing about possibilities of the future.

Over time Tom hascompleted nine photographic series, each with fifteen to twenty-fivephotographs which have been exhibited in more than twenty solo shows and abouta hundred group exhibitions and art fairs. Tom’s work is represented by six galleries in the United States andEurope.  Tom has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of FineArts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.  Entropic Kingdom,containing images from five series, was published by Modernbook Editions in2012.  Galerie Vevais published Werkdruck No 6 in 2015, featuring his Illumination series.