A collection of works spanning 2024-2025.

Enmeshed: An Internal Wilderness is a contemporary installation that expands upon Thomas’ prior painting series. It explores the psychological landscape of familial entanglement, generational trauma, and personal grief through immersive, spatial storytelling. Drawing from visual and material cues in organic textures, domestic symbols, and transparent structures, they evoke the delicate, concealed terrain of internal struggle. 

Visitors are invited to move through the installation physically and emotionally. Close reflection is encouraged in specific zones, allowing viewers to engage with texture, obscurement, and tension. Movement is slow and intentional. The space aims to invite reflection on one's own emotional inheritance and family dynamics.

Created for Next Phase, the work marks Thomas’ exploration of new mediums, alongside the reconceptualizing of individual pieces into a broader, more immersive series.

"I've always used painting to resolve emotional insecurity.

So then what happens when the work is too painful to resolve?

I've watched my studio build up a collection of unfinished work. Perpetual works in progress.

With this project, I confront the complex relationship between myself and family; an enmeshment that provides the affective power behind my artist’s block.

Enmeshed is a body of work that expands on these unresolved paintings and examines them in conversation with my current familial landscape."