Louise Bradley

Society and time are out of joint. Our lives are haunted by the specters of our past; they are in us- in objects, everywhere. Time- as it exists in us, is a complex web of ghostly unconsciousness, which speaks for us, and watches us. We are never alone and always alone. The non-presence of someone there, the watcher, giving an opinion... manipulating. The presence is to be accepted, incorporated in to the way we live and we think. Building a society of sensitive ghost watchers and listeners that are not afraid of the haunting thoughts that follow them. Simultaneously this will happen with the way we treat each other, life without exclusion, an equality to thoughts that mirrors the equality that we share. The death of painting represted here is not a destruction, but a deconstruction to create another reality, one with a better understanding of matter, existence, and time.

The influences for this work are Jacques Derrida's 'Specters of Marx', Buddhist philosophy, as well as the artwork of Chiharu Shiota, Angela De La Cruz and the films of David Lynch.