03/04/2026
Tom with his daugther
When I see Tom walking through the corridors of Westbeth, I sometimes feel I am seeing the child he once was.
There is something in his presence a quiet inward world that seems to have preserved the imagination of childhood.
Perhaps that is why his studio feels less like a workspace and more like a place where imagination has been patiently protected for decades.
For this portrait, I brought the 1900 painted backdrop from the Itinerary project into his apartment.
Two temporalities meeting:
a traveling studio from another century
inside a universe built over a lifetime.
An artist photographing another artist.
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