Not everything that disappears is gone. This is where I look for what lingers.
Emily Hobgood Thomas is an artist from North Carolina, currently living in Georgia. Her work blends photography and digital collage to explore how spaces hold onto memory and what happens when those spaces change, disappear, or get left behind. She draws from natural landscapes and fragments of manmade architecture to build images that exist somewhere between real and surreal, familiar and strange.
Her series Transient Places, Future Nostalgia was the heart of her MFA work and focused on how environments shape personal and collective memory. The new sister series Liminal Spaces, Forgotten Future picks up threads from an older, half forgotten collection. It looks at the futures of places that no longer exist as they once did, spaces that were changed, demolished, or abandoned, and uses them as metaphors for life’s turning points.
Emily graduated Magna Cum Laude from UNC Greensboro in 2018 with a BFA in Studio Art (Painting) and earned her MFA in Studio Art from UNC Chapel Hill in 2020. Following a period of burnout and reflection, she is returning to art on her own terms, focusing on meaningful expression over recognition.
Contact Emily at ehhobgoo@gmail.com for commissions, questions, and artwork purchases.