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Erica Rosenfeld (American, born 1975)
Reverie Forest: Sanctuary for Strange Creatures, 2026
Found objects, blown glass, wallpaper, fabric, and mixed media
Courtesy of the artist and Heller Gallery
I chose the song “Love Don’t Change” by Jeremiah because the rhythm is calm and the beats are slow and calming. It makes it peaceful, like the art, because the art has nature in it, and nature is peaceful and calm, like the song.
—Hunter Ludwig
It matches its blend of nostalgic, shared emotional architecture that includes a heavy, hypnotic state of dreamlike contemplation while balancing the isolation with comforting beauty. The song opens with a famous sliding pitch and a slow, cycling chord progression played on high strings, the repetitive song acts like lulling the brain into a trance.
Two parallels with both the song and artwork is the structure of a loop. The song relies on a hypnotic unchanging of its rhythm that just repeats, the song and repetitive provides a sense of familiar stability. The second one being the atmosphere. The song track uses a heavy audio reverb and delay that washes out the sharp edges of the guitar that makes other instruments blend into one another, while the artwork relies on atmosphere, perspective, the mist, fog, and the shading.
—Stefany Dubon Cordova