Thomas Hicks is from Greenville, South Carolina, and a multimedia artist. He focuses on his personal narrative through the reclamation and appropriation of his collected archive. His attempt at repair drives deep within his work, as he uses the portal as a means of construction and escapism. Hicks finds inspiration in the archive's speculative nature by creating patterns through history, introspection, and interconnectedness. Hicks oscillates between ideas of birth and expiration, degradation and construction, the corporeal and the indiscernible, and identity versus the collective.