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INSTALLATIONS
“My approach is personal and solitary, with its own unique evolution where I’m constantly working on many personal project ideas that often get refined - all leading to more things.”
TABLES
“... my work has been informed by the ambiguity between art, design and architecture.”
Since the early 1980s, Tom has been creating site-specific artworks that seamlessly integrate with architectural spaces. His work often incorporates large, vertically oriented glass planes designed to transform how viewers move through and experience an environment.
The Plateau (Low) Table Series brings that same conceptual depth to a more intimate scale. Each table is a sculptural exploration of space and material—featuring a horizontal glass plane within an open steel frame. The design invites interaction and reflection, echoing Tom’s large-scale installations in a refined, accessible form.
OEUVRES
“It is as though he captures and preserves it in the amber of visibility, which he has crafted into a kind of beautiful cage of it.”
“Patti shows the invisible – sheer absence – in and for itself, as the mystery within the radiantly visible. It is as though he captures and preserves it in the amber of visibility, which he has crafted into a kind of beautiful cage of it… he creates intense sculptural works and relishes the process of transforming his commonplace material (flat glass) into something both tangible and conceptually new by heating and fusing and distorting it. These are not works to be passively admired. Ideally you should hold them in your hand, draw them close to your eyes, and read them as you would a book, scanning the horizontal planes.”
SCULPTURE
“If there is one philosophical thought that I have, it’s that the essence of an object - the strength of its soul, isn’t necessarily in the size of an object. But it’s relevance is to the site and the purpose of the maker.”
“I have been inspired by the broad concept of space perception. During my early creative investigations, I used inflatable material as a membrane system to contain and define architectural space. Intended to be realized as housing for the developing world, I was intrigued by the ambiguous and open potential of spatial interiors and the architectural surfaces that contain and describe them. ”