The Ghost Walk is an ongoing multi-disciplinary art piece combining, site-responsive performance art, found object reclamation, costume design, film and photography. The work centers on the prefix re-, indicating repetition and meaning again. We reclaim, repurpose, reconnect, reinvent and ultimately reinterpret individual story into a physical vocabulary focused on embodying archetype, dream, vision and symbolic imagery. The costumes for the Ghost Walk are created almost exclusively from found materials collected from liminal, transitory and forgotten space. The purpose of using garbage is to transform a discarded and weathered object, revealing it as a thing of beauty that evokes shared memory and transcends the ordinary. This project explores our vast capacity to weather tragedy and trauma through transformation. It is my aim to create work that touches on this innate understanding of what is shared by all of us. The “ghosts” reclaim power through myth and ritual; giving the residual energy left from history a new voice.
