Tomas

Former software engineer. Living between Paris, Chiang Mai, and Kyoto.

Obsessed with Van Gogh for twenty years. Four years ago I left my job to follow his trail seriously — not as a tourist, but with 903 letters, a timeline, and a lot of questions.

gogh.art is my research journal. It's built on Van Gogh's own words: 44 nodes along a timeline, tracing how a man who couldn't draw became the painter of Wheatfield with Crows. No mythology. Just letters, paint, and time.

I've spent years studying the Tao Te Ching alongside Van Gogh's letters. The two have more in common than expected — both are about how to stand in the world, and how to leave it.