Ghosts
(Oil on Ampersand, 24×32, 2024)
Ghosts explores the presence of things that exist just beyond what we can clearly see or understand. The painting is layered with deep blues, greens, and flashes of red, creating an atmosphere that feels mysterious and unsettled. Within that space, faint vertical forms emerge and fade again, suggesting figures that are there but never fully revealed.
Ghosts (Oil on Ampersand, 24×32, 2024)
These forms are not meant to be literal ghosts, but impressions of presence. They stand somewhere between memory and spirit, appearing briefly within the surface of the painting before dissolving back into the surrounding atmosphere. I wanted the viewer to sense them rather than identify them clearly.
The title comes from the idea that many truths remain hidden throughout our lives. We carry secrets, misunderstandings, and unanswered questions that are never fully resolved. The phrase “only in death will the truth be told” reflects that lingering mystery. Sometimes the deeper meaning of a life—or the truth behind it—only becomes clear after it has ended.
Because of this, the figures in the painting feel both distant and familiar. They exist in a kind of suspended space, neither fully present nor entirely gone. Through texture and layered movement of paint, the work attempts to capture that feeling of something just out of reach.
In Ghosts, I was less interested in depicting a scene and more interested in creating an atmosphere where the viewer senses the weight of memory and the quiet presence of the unseen. The painting becomes a reflection on the things that remain with us even after they are no longer physically here.