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STATEMENT OF WORK
Thorne’s work makes use of a personal vocabulary of symbols, overlaying mismatched childhood memories and landscapes with fantastical color and ornamental shape. Drawing simultaneously on histories of “outsider” and folk art as well as his own identity as a trans man, his works are an experiment in self and world building: understanding the body as a landscape that too can be cultivated, constructed, and cared for. His work is an invocation to explore the porous and messy boundaries between nature and self, an invitation to viewers to join him in finding their own sanctuary. While paintings for Thorne can be an ethereal sanctuary, his sculptures are less so on the surface. His sculptures are assemblages that reflect the addition and subtraction of body parts. A process some trans folks go through to find home in their bodies. The sculptures are gritty, sloppy, but also tender and revered. Suggesting a sanctuary and some peace has been achieved in the process of becoming these objects.