These paintings were inspired by the fact that early abstractionists like Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Hilma af Klint were all followers of theosophy, an esoteric religion focused on spiritual evolution.
I found it intriguing that abstract painting came from a bunch of artists who believed their art would somehow usher in a new age of spirituality, yet today we tend to look at what they did through whatever materialist theory happens to be in vogue. My ghosts represent the spiritual origins of modernism coming back to haunt it.
