Caravaggio’s Ghost. 2023 (SOLD)

Collage on Rivoli off-white paper backed by foam board. Black and white post-card of an Andy Warhol photograph of shadows in an empty room. Newspaper clippings glued and removed leaving ink stains. Niamh changes their mind a lot and will glue down text clippings and then decide they make the image less complex. Photographic self-portrait of the artist holding a painted self-portrait of Caravaggio’s painted face over their own. A photograph of the first dress the artist bought painted over with white acrylic. A clipping from the book BIRTH of an embryo developing. A drawing by the artist from 2022 printed in color on acetate and cut to the shape of the smock dress, leaving the phallic fetus form centered.

9 x 6 inches unframed