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Thomas Jackson Makes the Impossible Beautifully Real
There is a moment, well known to anyone who has encountered Thomas Jackson's photographs for the first time, when the mind simply refuses to accept what the eyes are seeing. Hundreds of paper coffee filters suspended in a perfect geometric cloud above a sun drenched meadow. Thousands of glow sticks arcing through a twilight forest like a living constellation pulled down to earth. Post it notes gathering in a pulsing swarm above an urban rooftop. Jackson has spent more than a decade building these visions out of the most ordinary materials imaginable, and the results remain among the most… Continue reading
Artists in conversation
Andy Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy creates temporary site specific sculptures in natural environments that exist primarily through photographic documentation, sharing Jackson's commitment to ephemeral outdoor installations that engage with landscape and natural materials.
Reuben Margolin
Margolin constructs large scale kinetic wave sculptures using hundreds of identical repeated units arranged in geometric formations, echoing Jackson's fascination with swarm like patterns and the mathematical beauty of collective repetition.
Sandy Skoglund
Skoglund meticulously constructs surreal environments populated with hundreds of identical sculptural objects and then photographs the results, making the photograph the final artwork in a process directly parallel to Jackson's own practice.
Artists who inspired them
Christo
Christo's monumental temporary environmental installations that exist as events documented through photography established a foundational model for the idea that ephemeral outdoor transformation can be a serious and complete artistic practice.
Edward Weston
Weston's rigorous approach to formal composition and the treatment of natural subjects as vehicles for abstract geometric beauty informs Jackson's own highly controlled and aesthetically precise photographic sensibility in outdoor settings.
Yayoi Kusama
Kusama's obsessive use of repetition and pattern through thousands of identical dots and forms as a way of overwhelming and transforming space is a conceptual precedent for Jackson's own installations built from massive accumulations of a single object.