When our senses perform accurately, the overall picture we get is strongly based on fact, but also strongly based on fabrications that our brain creates to fill in many missing details. These inserted assumptions are not based on reality, so the final picture we get is partly hallucination. Our brains continuously pick the best hallucination to inform us about its assessment of reality. – Dr. Greg DuPont, What Am I and Why Do I Do the Things I Do?

I never knew anyone on my father’s side of the family. When I asked questions, they were dismissed. I was told my paternal grandmother was dead throughout my childhood, until  my father was called out of town for her funeral when I was 20. He returned with a rich photo album from his childhood, and, for years I have been trying to piece together his life and those of my unknown relatives. When I struggle to fill in the blanks I create narratives based on secrets and lies: bits of information overheard in dark hallways, scraps of stories shared then quickly hushed. Ghosts is a series of images fabricated in a vacuum of disinformation, in an attempt to create a family history.