Tom Chambers Gallery "What's happening here?" Every illustration on this beguiling site raises that question. Working in a technique known as photomontage, artist Tom Chambers combines unrelated images to fabricate a reality that is grim or ominous, or to marry a fragile otherworldliness with stark reality. The fact that Chambers's themes include children and animals, water, and fire -- often in dangerous combinations -- is incidentally interesting. Mexican ex voto folk art and digital photography also inform his work, but the most riveting aspect of these illustrations is their "what-if" surrealism: What if this moment in time had actually happened? What happened in the previous moment? What will happen next? The answers lie in the observer's imagination. (in Photographers)
