TITLE: YOUR SOUL JUST GETS A LITTLE DARKER UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT aka THE GHOST

Works from a series of more than 100 photographs.
Included here - #002, #004, #009, #012, #033, #034, #063, #074.
All presented as follow - Giclee print with plexiglass mounting on both sides and aluminum bar hanging.
Variable dimensions.

“...Above all, The Ghost is a work of intimacy and silence, where the main protagonists are beauty and terror. But silence is, of course, the very circumstance and contingency of those who speak, their state of terror; and intimacy represents the variable, but highly sensitive range, at which beauty can still be dealt with. In this sense, these images speak terrifyingly because they speak silently, i.e. they jump the fence of their contingent muteness to intentionally exercise silence. This mode, that interweaves beauty and terror, is also intentionally aggravated by the fact that all the figures in the images appear without faces (or showing only part of the face, albeit distorted or veiled or reflected – but always fragmented).
The Greek expression for the faceless, or for the facelessness is aprosopos. The term specifically designates a faceless monster or the monstrosity of facelessness, but, curiously, these could also be brought about precisely because of an obfuscation caused by dazzling beauty...” Rui Cascais Parada

AUTHOR: Jose Drummond (China)