Ammo Box Landscape
Ammo Box Landscape
Artist
Guillermo Galindo
(born 1960)
Date2015
MediumPigment print
Dimensions30 × 44 in. (76.2 × 111.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2017.17
Accession number
2017.17
On View
Not on viewLabel TextTo create Ammo Box Landscape, Guillermo Galindo mapped musical notation onto photographer Richard Misrach's landscape photographs of the United States-Mexico border, which he then printed onto an ammunition box. Galindo often cites the term "prosopopeia" to describe his idea that objects can communicate stories from imaginary, absent, or deceased people. By uniting seemingly diverse images into one musical score, Galindo evokes these stories from the border though symbolic language and visual data.
