Mockingbird • The Brief Gallery • 238 5th Ave. N.

→ Photo Info (Here) Tim Davis Photography Club. Knoxville, TN
2006 This large 42” x 55” photograph hangs in the front window of the BRIEF Gallery. It was taken in 2006 around the time of Tim’s solo show at the Knoxville Museum of Art as part of a community outreach program that takes place at the museum. People in Nashville walk down the sidewalk on their way to their destination of the day. They see the Photography Club photograph on the wall and it suggests that something photographic in nature might be happening at the BRIEF Gallery, but that’s not why they stop. The photograph somehow resonates with the commonality of many people. They stop and look at the children in the photograph to try and figure out why it’s there and what the kids are doing. What does it mean by hanging in the window facing out at the world? Many that stop to study it, have never considered walking into an art gallery on the street in the city. Some aren’t even sure what they are supposed to do, if they should enter or not. They look over into the large glass windows of the BRIEF gallery and are drawn in to the unexpected art gallery that suddenly appeared at 238 5th Ave North in Nashville, Tennessee for the last months of 2009.