GHOST PAINTING: (CRACKED CATEGORY) TROZOS SERIES Kristoffer ArdeĂąa The cracked category of the Ghost Painting concept refers to the process in which several layers of paint are applied to the surface and allowed to crack, much like the walls on the streets of the tropics wherein humidity acts as a catalyst of this transformation irregardless of the visual rhetoric. This series of paintings makes use of cut out clothes that were bought at the ukay.ukay, referring to the used clothes are sold in stores or makeshift stalls in the streets all over the Philippines.