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“I was away in France two weeks ago in an old house that always inspires me to channel my inner ‘spirit photographer’, hoping to create and/or capture some kind of phantasmagoria with my camera. I wondered if I could manifest a shadowy apparition in the looking glass of the old wardrobe in one of the big rooms upstairs. I was thinking about ‘Candyman’ and all the urban legends like it, in which you stand before a mirror and say the name of someone three times—not praising them exactly, but close—in the hope/fear that they will appear in the mirror as summoned. I created a very simple ‘silhouette’ out of cardboard and three black plastic tablecloths and then suspended the ad-hoc figure from a beam on a length of black elastic.” (August 2025)
