
Alma Thomas: in Living Color
Detail from Autumn Drama (1969), Alma Thomas.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Used here as
reference for a proposal concept.
This page serves as a visual concept board for a short video inspired by Autumn Drama.
Alma Thomas transformed observations of nature into vibrant rhythms of color and movement. Rather than depicting landscapes directly, her paintings translate the energy of seasons, light, and atmosphere into living patterns of color.
This project explores that same idea through time-based media. Using vertical video of natural environments as a starting point, hand-made color marks gradually emerge, echoing the movement and rhythm found in Thomas’s work. As the sequence unfolds, the marks accumulate and transform the scene into a field of living color, allowing nature’s motion to become abstraction.
The goal is not to reproduce Thomas’s imagery, but to extend her language of color into motion—revealing how color can function as energy, rhythm, and sensation.


