Thomas Patrick Wolf

Chicago, United States

About the Artist:
As an aspiring artist, growing up with a visual impairment has given me a vision different than others. With only being left with my central field of vision I have a unique ability to only see my subject while everything else is skewed, missing, or ignored.

Using my Occuptaion as a Blind Rehabilitation Specialist funds my Art endeavor and again gives me perspective that is unique from everyone else. I deal with all visual impairments and have a good understanding of each impairments physiology of what they can see, or can't see.

I can take the simplest of forms and see their beauty. Some may say it's much too simple, but simple is good, and minimalism is good. To rake out the unnecessary and leave only the subject at hand completes the piece in a way no one has ever seen or not seen.

My goal as an artist is to make representational art for each of the impairments that I see on a daily basis. Let the color flow or not flow to educate others.

Artist's Statement:
Like all artists I want to share my vision of life, beauty, pain, reality ... But through my eyes, the vision is a bit skewed because of retinal disease. My picture of the world gets smaller and smaller everyday but my minds eye grows with vision and passion for life, beauty, pain and reality.

Because of my vision, the medium I chose is my prosthetic. Technology has finally caught up to my long loved medium: mixed Media/Digital Photography.

Pulling my skills from life drawing, acrylic, oil, sculpture, photography and mixing them for a composition in a digital controlled environment settles that burning inside me. Microchips, lasers, and electricity allows my emotional outpour to be released.

This series and my current work consist of a mourning period of love and opportunities missed and lost. Each of the pieces herein consist of imagery: water, eyes, doors and blurriness. All are connected. Eyes opening the door to the soul, letting in, they see more clearly, leaving you exposed, unable to shut it again.