GHOSTS OF ‘76
28.5” x 17.75”
Oil, tape on plywood panel
Among one of my most personal pieces, this painting explores the nature of history’s ghosts, the white layers showing through coming from the underpainting painted from a historical photograph, then obscured and obfuscated, yet the ghosts are still there, looking back at us from within. The photograph referenced beneath is from the 1976 student massacre in Thailand, an event which itself has cast a long shadow from my mother’s generation into mine.