Night, Music

‘Night, Music’, 2007 is a sculpture which was made after the photograph, ‘Gloss (II)’, 2007, also in the Arts Council Collection. Becky Beasley's practice often involves a transition from sculpture to photograph after which another sculpture might be made. Questions of scale are key to understanding the ambiguous relationships between images and objects present in Beasley's work.The object photographed in ‘Gloss (II)’ was made at two-thirds the scale of the dimensions of an upright piano which Beasley then enlarged photographically to create 'Gloss (II)’. The title, ‘Night, Music’, originates from the short story ‘Music for Chameleons’, 1980, by the American author Truman Capote, which features both a piano and a black mirror. It also refers to Aldous Huxley's essay entitled ‘Music at Night’ of 1931 .