Tai is a Vermont-based artist transforming the familiar into the unexpected. By amassing everyday objects, often in monumental quantity, he crafts objects that tell one story from afar, then reveal their true identity up close.

Tai created a small body of work in 2007, but the realities of expensive apartment living in Boston prevented him from continuing his work. He relocated to Vermont in 2023, a move that finally provided him both the time and space to continue creating.

Tai Ericson

HP Series

In 2025, Tai started a new project deconstructing Harry Potter books to make portraits of murdered transgender people. The author of the HP books is wildly transphobic and has contributed purposefully and relentlessly to a culture that demonizes and dehumanizes trans people. The portraits destroy her work, replacing it with a memorial to someone that lost their life to the culture fostered by the author.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights.