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Gory (Rogelio López Marín)
It’s Only Water in the Teardrop of a Stranger (Es sólo agua en la lagrima de un extraño)1986, printed 2002

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Sepia and blue-gray toned photograph of two black metal pool handrails on aged concrete, beneath a dark, heavily textured ceiling structure, with handwritten text below
Handwritten text in blue cursive script on white paper, reading: "If it's true that I'm just a collective dream – that you dreamed me from the first, that I've never existed outside the minds of my audience – then I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to release me. Dream of something else from now on, not of me."
Artist or Maker
Gory (Rogelio López Marín)
Title
It’s Only Water in the Teardrop of a Stranger (Es sólo agua en la lagrima de un extraño)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1986, printed 2002
Medium
Gelatin-silver print, toned
Dimensions
Image (includes black border): 18 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (47.63 × 32.39 cm) Primary support: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm) Mat: 24 × 18 in. (60.96 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line
Photographic Arts Council, 2001
Accession Number
M.2002.25.7
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© Gory (Rogelio López Marín)