"Marking Time" is a photographic exploration of the quiet, often unseen moments of waiting within hospital spaces. In these sterile yet deeply human environments, time becomes elastic, expanding and contracting with uncertainty, hope, and resignation. Through a series of still images, this project captures the physical and emotional imprints left by patients and visitors as they navigate the liminal space of waiting. Each photograph is an attempt to document the suspended rhythms of hospital waiting, where every second is marked by breath, pulse, and unspoken fears. In "Marking Time", I seek to visualize the invisible; how waiting alters perception, how the body registers time in tension and stillness, and how the act of waiting itself becomes a kind of endurance, a ritual, a reckoning. Through this work, I invite the viewer to pause, to consider their own encounters with uncertainty, and to recognize the shared human experience of holding on in the face of the unknown. - Prince Varughese Thomas
As an Indian immigrant born in Kuwait, partly raised in India, and naturalized in the United States, Prince Varughese Thomas is part of what has come to be known as the Indian Diaspora. His studio practice is influenced by his ethnicity and the racial prejudices he has faced throughout his life. From the Iran Hostage crisis in the 70’s, to aggressions in Libya in the 80’s, to the first Gulf War in the 90’s, and then 9/11, each decade of Thomas’ life has been marked with prejudice that has been projected onto him by those who have perceived him as an enemy or threat. This experience of otherness through his formative years to adulthood has affected how he looks at society—with open eyes and with attempts to investigate places that he finds worthy of critique, exploration, and making art—creating works that deconstruct complex issues and humanize his subjects.
Prince Varughese Thomas earned his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington and M.F.A. from the University of Houston. A winner of the Time-Based Media in Art Prize 7 and a Texas Biennial Artist, Thomas has been invited to be a visiting artist, lecturer, panel discussant, and workshop instructor at numerous institutions including Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Indiana University, Memphis College of Art (TN), the Light Factory (Charlotte, NC), and the Queens Museum (NY). His work has been exhibited in over 175 solo and group exhibitions at numerous museums, galleries, and alternative spaces. His work is represented in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Thomas is currently a Professor of Art at Lamar University (Beaumont, TX).
