Ghost Poem — Annabelle

Ghost Poem, 2021
series of site-specific murals
developed for Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (NL)

Ghost Poem is a series of sentences that imagines the reader as a ghost haunting the text - and at the same time, the reader as being haunted by the text itself.

When a tragic story makes us cry, are the tears we shed our own or those of the main character? Do we, while reading, become temporarily haunted by the characters we read about? Ghost Poem views reading as a bodily experience, as if a translation of the body of the text somehow takes place into the body of the reader. There’s a side to every tale that transcends the written words themselves; floating in an almost ghostly manner between the pages and the hands that hold them.