Tommy Jay - MA Fine Art & MA Future Design: Parsing the Arbitrary
Channel: Prague City University
Date: 04/06/2018

Delving into works of Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Paul Ekman, as well as theorists in the field of cognition and emotion and related psychology and mental health literature, Tommy propelled into a deeper understanding of mental illness and associated emotional manifestation. Taking a keen focus on visual aesthetics and contrasting message with medium, he emulsified his message through a unique language. 

(His) mental health issues and simple electronics are (im)mortalized in concrete structures, granting a snapshot of a time and place of a rapidly changing mindset. The works combine new media and basic sculpture practice to appose themes of emotion, self reflection, all brewed by questions of mental health, mixed and cast as geometrical recordings. Tommy puts his all in his work and uses it as an autobiographical reflection of himself, expressing current issues and thoughts. His work treads on a fine balance of sanity just like the lives of those affected by certain mental illnesses, giving off an eerie feeling of ‘something being off’.