For seven years, Thomas Alan Productions followed surrealist artist Colette Aimée across the Northeast, capturing what it looks like to build a life entirely from imagination.
The Spot in Providence
Working in multiple mediums, from painting and sculpting to costume design and installation art, Colette creates figures that stretch and contort to express what emotions feel like from the inside out.
First Interview, Home Art Gallery Showing, and Live Painting in Vermont, 2018
Her recurring Harlequin characters move between worlds and identities, much like Colette herself has over the years.
2nd Interview, Spencer Massachusetts, 2019
Born into a family of actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists, she came to art as lived experience before she came to it as discipline.
Awake: Colette and her Sirens at Putnam Place in Saratoga in 2019
What the camera finds, again and again, is someone unwilling to separate the work from the life, or the life from the work.
Electric Haze 10th Anniversary Party in 2023
Filmed from March 2018 through June 2025, the documentary moves through gallery openings and festival grounds, studio breakthroughs and setbacks.
As Curator and Featured Artist at Strangecreek in 2024
This is the story of one artist’s commitment: what it costs, what it produces and what it means to keep creating from such a deeply personal space, regardless of what the outside world is doing.
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