Spectral Archetypes
2022These apparitions shimmer on the edge of recall as relics from no specific past, phantasmagoric yet deeply familiar. They are spectral architectures built from longing and recognition, stitched together from the soft machinery of memory, emotion, and light. Cloaked behind veils of diffraction, they flicker in and out of stability, enacting a theater of becoming in which identity is not declared but dreamt. Each figure is an echo of something ancient and unnamed—a resonance rather than a portrait. They rise like reflections in a stormy mirror: part oracle, part phantom, part forgotten kin. Their presence is never stable. Instead, they pulse, refract, resist. To gaze upon them is to engage in a choreography of shifting meanings, to participate in a ritual of seeing that is as much about unknowing as it is about recognition.
The act of placing these figures behind refractive veils parallels my own attempt to constellate psychic remnants, giving old emotional architectures new form and vitality. Through interference patterns and optical hauntings, I invite a rehearsal of perception—not to reveal truth, but to suggest that every truth is superimposed with shadow, and every shadow is a prism. These works are not representations but emissaries. They beckon from a liminal zone—a palatial ruin in the psyche where the baroque and the spectral co-mingle. Here, archetypes move beyond inherent icons into emergent frequencies, sculpted by encounter, experience, and desire.
Spectral Archetypes offer no answers. Instead, it invites orientation within a psychosomatic multiplexity: a shimmering labyrinth of symbolic intelligence and sensual perception, where the archetype is not a fixed motif but a refracted signal—part prophecy, part invitation, part dream.
The Disappearing Child
Unique hologram, antique daguerreotype in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Dubious Sentinel
Unique hologram, antique tintype in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Misanthropic Diviner, 2022 Unique hologram, antique photograph in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Impertinent Altruist
Unique hologram, antique photograph in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Toilsome Underwriter
Unique hologram, antique tintype in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Laconic Paramour
Unique hologram, antique photograph in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in
The Ingenious Jester, 2022
Unique hologram, antique photograph in original frame, gilding
2 x 3 in