Ghost Painting: Toldo Category Part of the Ghost Painting series What are Ghost Paintings? Ghost Painting is a series that covers different categories. It goes beyond the pictorial plane of the surface of the meaning of the reality the image or surface it represent. These paintings have lost their original purpose and have been reduced to their face value. The painting is then painted using adhesive spray trapping dust and other residue in the site where it is located onto its surface. A process that is a continuous work-in-progress. For the Ghost Painting: Toldo Category, used clothes bought from the ukay-ukay (shops that sell secondhand clothing that comes from South Korea, Europe, Australia or the USA that were intended as relief goods and also from textiles shops are sewn together with painted texts that were once used as signs from the local university. These are collaged together with other painted surfaces made by different kinds of people. These paintings are not meant to be stretched onto wooden frames but are pinned to the wall or hanged. Although it may seem confusing, this coating is not what Ghost Painting is about; instead it is akin to the idea of “priming� a blank canvas. The act of painting extends to the public, the receptor of the painting who has the option to paint this using adhesive spray.
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