My extended study project is concerned with the hauntolgical power of ephemera. The concept of hauntology – feeling nostalgia for a time one has never lived in – looms large over my work. I have appropriated a number of illustrative ideas from ephemera throughout the decades to fabricate a timeless and nameless era to which these works belong. I have included excerpts from two outcomes of my project. The first is record sleeve art for a fictional record label, and the second is a zine intended as a primer of sorts on the topic of hauntology. The latter is accompanied by a series of illustrations designed to give a window into a fictional time and place that is an amalgamation of various aesthetics from throughout the 20th Century.
During times of turmoil and uncertainty ephemera can provide a form of escape, a window into another better, brighter world. I am interested in the notion of creating alternate and parallel worlds through the means of illustrated ephemera; worlds that we can retreat to in times of discomfort and stress.
1-Tchotchke Records Sleeve Art 1
2-Tchotchke Records Sleeve Art 2
3-Tchotchke Records Sleeve Art 3
4-Tchotchke Records Sleeve Art 4
5-Tchotchke Records Sleeve Art
6-Hauntology Zine Cover
7-Hauntology Zine Excerpt 1
8-Hauntology Zine Excerpt 2
9-Hauntology Zine Excerpt 3
10-Hauntology Excerpt 4