During the months he spent at home during the pandemic, artist Thomas Jackson rediscovered a layer of creativity covered by routine and an artistic research that zigzagged between cues of all kinds. The discovery that he had more time to think about his works led the photographer to focus on single details to be dissected in order to understand all the creative possibilities, a material such as tulle for example, which the artist used for installations with a strong scenographic identity.
The tulle is a material that opens to many unpredictable possibilities if photographed in the wind, so Jackson has created works immersed in landscapes as wide as the beaches of California, to raise awareness of the problem of forest fires that involved the American state in 2020.

During those months, Thomas Jackson created several works that follow the theme of fires, interpreted lightly and through a material that would allow him to symbolically capture the wind. The fabrics are held by imperceptible structures and kept out of the frame, increasing the lightness of the work.
In the artist’s production, however, there are also experiments with different materials such as paper or plastic, always interpreted as single pieces that make up a larger cloud, a swarm of free objects that has a volume defined by the position of each individual element. The colors chosen by the Philadelphia-born artist are always bright and brilliant, giving at first glance the impression that it is a cloud of dust and to us of looking at images of the Indian Holi Festival.
Throughout his career the artist has played with everyday materials and objects, also creating more graphic works that combined physical objects with signs and lines, but it is with the works on the beaches and coasts of California that he managed to really capture the wind.