Daniel Bernard Roumain and “American Gothic” | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/sound-thoughts-art/daniel-bernard-roumain-and-american-gothic
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture pain, legacy, enduring hope—and the rhythm of the subject’s life.
that contradicts the symbolism of freedom, and it makes it stand for something else