"Ghost Lines" show by Alma Elaine Shoaf

Artist Statement:

Ghost Lines is a body of work that is first, last, and foremost about death. It is also about different internal and external mythologies as reflections of social expectations and archetypes, resulting in the culmination of self-fulfilling prophecies informed by both personal and public experience. Each piece attempts to deconstruct these mythologies, in a hope to process how my own history, my family’s history, and the history of broader social, religious, and literary mechanisms have created a narrative that may seem to write itself, yet is ultimately our responsibility. My wish is to illustrate how I believe these mythologies of gender, sexuality, race and morality have lead us all, as both individuals and as a collective society, into these varying states of grief and violence we so often find ourselves in.
And yes, there are ghosts, if only because there are memories.