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Ghost Stories

$600

“When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.”

— Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted)

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Ghost sickness as described in the Outline for Cultural Formulation and Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Ghost sickness as described in the Outline for Cultural Formulation and Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes · 20 × 20 in