Chiffon Thomas’s practice is an interdisciplinary one, ranging across hand embroidered two-dimensional work to mixed media sculpture. Identifying as a trans queer person of color, Thomas’ powerful figurative assemblages examine the difficulties faced by defining one’s identity in contemporary society. Thomas is interested in relational aesthetics and the body in relation to objects. He sees a symbiotic relationship between biology and industrial structures and how they relate to each other, in that a lot of the things that we make functional in the world are by copying nature. In his work, he plays around with this duality—a body becoming a structure or the structure becoming a body—while also maintaining the tenderness and the fragility of the body, which may seem structurally sound but still needs care. Recently delving into the realm of stained glass within his sculptural practice, Thomas integrates fractured sections into bronze cast fragments of faces, culminating in his latest creation's embodiment of the intricate layers of identity.