Tilley Aga Thom for Portfolio Day 1 – FESCH.TV

Tilley Aga Thom for Portfolio Day 1 & FESCH.TV:

Film I made for Portfolio Day 14, Etobicoke School of the Arts as a visual artist statement, where I display my love for space and architecture within narratives and the concept of passing through thresholds.

Here is my written statement:

My work plays with the spaces that lie in the between. I thrive working within this negative space, which is not a void but rather a vital pause, a gap which holds exciting interplay between realities, objects, people and most importantly narrative structures. This embracement of the inbetween is seen in both my narrative and abstract works.

My work revolves around themes of family, storytelling, death and grief, explored mainly through mediums of film and photography, caught in simple, small moments. These moments lead the viewer as well as the characters through a threshold, beyond the scope of the initial moment. Architecture and sculpture are aspects I am constantly experimenting with and use as aids in my storytelling. Although my recent mediums have been filmic, I enjoy drawing, painting, pottery, sculpture, textile and fashion design.