Tom Abba makes collages, photographs, and prints. His work is concerned with landscape as a site of pressure — what accumulates in a place, what a place withholds, and the ways in which the visual record of somewhere can be accurate and entirely misleading at the same time.
About →Lab
Recent thinking All →-
New World — series tests
Working notes from the New World series — a set of square collages developing in parallel with Folk Horror, using the same format but a different tonal and thematic vocabulary.
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Photpoetry — working notes
Ongoing experiments combining photographic images and poetic text as a single visual unit — not illustration, not caption, but something that requires both registers to work.
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Antiquities — inventory
A photographic inventory of found and inherited objects — tools, fragments, things with uncertain purpose — treated as if they were archaeological finds.
Work
Selected projects All →-
Undercurrents
A sequenced series of eighteen works tracing movement, submersion, and the body's relationship to water — archival pigment prints made from layered photographic sources.
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Cosmic
A sustained series of collages exploring deep time, geological formation, and the visual language of astronomical scale — surfaces that hold something between the mineral and the celestial.
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Folk Horror
Twenty-six square collages drawn from the visual grammar of British folk horror — edgeland sites, ritual remnants, figures half-consumed by landscape.