I knew I had interests in the absurd, both aesthetically with visuals and conceptually, but soon with space as a whole. I found myself very interested in the physical space outside the paintings on which the canvas would be hung. I wanted to create work that visually but also physically “interacts” with this space. It is interesting to create paintings that are so spacially removed from reality by using only thin glazes and creating translucent ghost-like images while juxtaposing them with very concrete tangible pieces in the space we physically occupy. I found myself gravitating to fashion, something that is incredibly tangible but also very conceptual when it comes to obtaining clothing, online shopping, fast fashion, and its creation, which is a process that is incredibly ghost-like as people cannot see what went into the things they wear, they only concretely know what is tangible in front of them. I found the usage of mannequins to complement this idea perfectly. Mannequins exist to show physically whatever clothing is being presented so we can concretely visualize the clothing instead of assuming or merely thinking about how a piece of fashion could look. Still, mannequins are lifeless; to me, they are ghosts of people, something that we are to look at but not assign a physical identity to, existing within physical space but beginning to cross into the realm of conceptual thinking and the space of the absurd.