54 cm (H) x 40 cm (W)
Oil on stretched canvas.
 
Ghost Capture is painted as a figure caught in low light, part portrait, part trace. A pale face emerges from a dark ground, held under the brim of a cap. The body is simplified into a leaning silhouette, set inside a framed border of scratched marks and looping lines. The palette stays cool and restrained, blue greys, soot blacks, chalk whites, with small interruptions of dusty pink that sit like static across the surface.
 
Texture leads the image. Oil is layered and pushed, then scratched back into as it dries, leaving patterned cuts and scrawled surfaces that feel both protective and restless. The border reads like interference, as if the scene has been pulled from a damaged photograph or a paused frame of video. The figure is present, but not fully available.
 
The work takes inspiration from silhouettes and distortion, the unseen being half seen. Instead of transparency, this ghost is weighted. Thought and noise gather inside the body, filling it, pressing against the edges. The darkness becomes a place where the inner world is louder than the outer one, and where a quiet moment, swinging in a summer breeze, is still crowded by passing mind states.