Photography by Thomas Oscar Miles
"There's No Place Like Home"
Thomas Oscar Miles
My art looks to inspire self empowerment, through embracing our vulnerabilities. This is celebrated through fragile and detailed imagery, centered around the narratives. In my work, I talk about personal fears and darker experiences. I give my characters opportunities to wear these like a crown. How can we appreciate our light when we brush the darkness under the bed, ignored? I hope that my work can show people how multi-layered each one of us is, showing a unity in our humanity.
I talk in my work about personal experiences such as mental health and my ever-growing relationship with my autism. I choose to represent these in my work through visuals such as decay, bones, and shadow filled corners of a woodland. My new series 'Our Beautiful Demise' speaks on a similar theme: wearing our fears with pride, binding them tightly to our flesh. I have grown up fearful of my personal shadows, I now instead hope to educate others on this and create a platform to spotlight issues we all go through.
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.” -Tennessee Williams
This photo is inspired by my recent experience with isolation. It was a very surreal time where I wasn’t able to leave the house for just over two weeks. There were positives in that I could get lots of work done, but it brought on a feeling of fear for the outside world. - Home started to begin crushing me, but in an oddly comforting way. As if the weight of its bricks and furnishings were giving me the only hugs I was able to receive.
Photography, Print on 310 GSM Canson Rag Photographique Paper. Shot on Nikon D610
20.3x25.4cm
Unframed
Edition of 20