Tommy Lee
@sweetboyt
Tommy Lee is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between painting, writing, and performance to explore the body as a threshold between inner and outer worlds. Through improvisational and physical character-based performances, they investigate how movement can dissolve boundaries between control and intuition. In the mixed media piece composed of mastic emulsion and ink, a still figure contains a restless terrainâa body encasing chaos, suggesting that even in stillness, countless universes are in motion. Across their work and workshops, he invites a surrender to instinct, tracing the gestures that emerge when thought yields to embodied awareness.
Artist Statement
My practice is an exploration of the body as both a vessel and a landscape, a place where stillness and movement coexist, where chaos hums quietly beneath the surface. Working across painting, writing, and performance, Iâm drawn to the tension between control and surrender, precision and intuition.
In my mixed media work, I use materials like mastic emulsion and ink to mirror the bodyâs dual nature , fragile yet dense, still yet full of internal motion. The figure becomes a container for unseen turbulence, suggesting that stillness is never empty but alive with energy, thought, and emotion.
Through improvisational and physical character-based performance, I explore how movement can bypass intellect and bring us back to an instinctive state of creation. The same impulse informs the workshops I facilitate, where I guide participants to let go of control, listen to their bodies, and create from a place of embodied awareness.
Ultimately, my work seeks to honor the quiet complexity within us, the inner choreography that never ceases, even when we appear still.
Artwork
âDEEP RESTâ