Apparition

Thirteen A3 sheets of paper, UV ink, UV torch. Layout variable.

'Apparition' draws on the history of spirit photography and the human need to find meaning in the supernatural. 

Thirteen seemingly blank pages contain a description of a real ghost experience, revealed only when seen with a UV light. Each moment of visitation and fear melts away as soon as the torch light moves, creating a frustrating, vanishing, ephemeral encounter for the viewer, who is implicated in the act of uncovering meaning and left to consider their own experience of the uncanny. 

With text taken from interviews with people who have reported a ghost experience, 'Apparition' straddles the line between humour and horror, asking what we choose to believe.