Thomas Jackson

-Thomas Jackson is based in Brooklyn, New York.

These photos are from Jackson's series 'Emergent Behaviour', the description for this series by him from his website goes as follows:

Emergent Behavior

The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, schooling fish and flocking birds. The images attempt to tap the mixture of fear and fascination that those phenomena tend to evoke, while creating an uneasy interplay between the natural and the manufactured and the real and the imaginary. At the same time, each image is an experiment in juxtaposition. By constructing the installations from unexpected materials and placing them where they seem least to belong, I aim to tweak the margins of our visual vocabulary, and to invite fresh interpretations of everyday things.

I came across this work accidentally when researching microscopic images. This work has given my a strong idea of what sort of experiments I can do, these pieces remind me of the microscopic germs living with us in our world and the fact that these objects that resemble them have been placed outside gives the images a stronger sense of idea. I know this isn't what the images are about but it's what they make me think of. I would like to experiment with the technique of installing objects onto an outdoor area then Photo-shopping the stabilisers away, leaving behind magnificent, magical, imagination screaming images.