A collection of works spanning 2024 to the present.

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."

A collection of works spanning 2022-2025.

Internal Wilderness is a series of small to medium sized acrylic paintings on canvas that feature the self as a grand subject. Through this exploration of personal anxieties relating to childhood isolation and internalized trauma, I invite the viewer to reflect on their own relationship with self.

This body of work is realized with themes of elation in solitude, perils of self-destructive behavior, and the fight to balance self-expression with internal voice. Inspirations are taken from the perceived external world; Cerebral landscapes that echo the emotional charge carried within warm blood, flesh, and bones. 

I create art to work through my insecurities with relationships, my perpetual loneliness, and spiritual elation that I’m connected to everyone in one big universal process. A critical life-long ritual. My art allows me to safely compartmentalize events of trauma in an externalized space beyond the echoing coil of my mind. Integral to the art-making practice, catharsis is primed and encrusted with sentiment to the canvas. Utilizing vulnerability to forge a connection with the viewer, two strangers share a bond over paint on canvas without ever occupying the same physical space.

Within the gallery setting, observers are lured in by a lush, verdant palette. However, once spending time with the work, the pieces unfold into multifaceted notions arriving at unease and discomfort. I liken this to presenting the mask socially versus inner expression that remains tucked behind teeth.