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Tom Fath’s work includes ribbon installations on wood found in old barns and paintings on canvas. The images he employs arrive totemic, two dimensional interpretations of urban culture and natural themes. Pieces of a puzzle that when finished, makes statements about our culture and nature. His narrative registers the relevance and the power of redemption and reclamation, as a universal emotional need for our times. The simplicity and symbolism of these images communicate the forces of destruction and resilience, the duality of the human experience and the constant putting pieces of life together everyday. Invoking both the Japanese kintsugi and wabi-sabi concepts, the damage and repair, the beauty and decay, the acceptance of flaws and the non-attachment to perfecting experience, are manifested in all his works. 

Kenyon College BA
Pratt Institute MS