Ghost Flower
Ghost Flower is an ongoing series of framed sculptural works exploring memory, absence, and preservation. Through glass, archival references, and symbolic botanical forms, the works function as fragile emotional specimens — suspended between relic, memorial, and apparition.
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Artist’s secret thoughts
Ghost Flower emerged during a period surrounding the death of my father.At the time, I became increasingly aware of how memory survives through fragments — objects, gestures, textures, phrases, atmospheres, and small emotional residues that remain long after physical presence has disappeared. The flowers began to function almost like preserved emotional specimens: attempts to hold onto something already in the process of receding.
The recurring use of serial numbers, labels, quotes, and framing devices reflects a desire to catalogue and preserve experiences that resist clear resolution. Many of the literary fragments included within the works act as emotional echoes rather than explanations — partial thoughts that hover around the work without fully defining it.
Although deeply personal in origin, Ghost Flower was never intended as direct autobiography or sentimental memorial. Instead, the series explores the uneasy space between preservation and disappearance: the human impulse to archive feeling, memory, and presence, despite knowing that none of these things can ever be fully contained.
“The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.”
Rob Montgomery
“I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?”
Leigh Bardugo
Dimensions and technique
Insitu framed flowers
Flameworked and sandblasted borosilicate glass mounted within custom wood frames fitted with museum-quality anti-reflective glass. Mixed-media backdrops with details in 22 carat gold or fine silver leaf.
Each framed work is individually composed and serial numbered.
Small — 180 × 240 × 40 mm
Medium — 240 × 300 × 50 mm
Large — 340 × 840 × 50 mm