Hello again... I've made another picture, and this one is called 'The Hour of the Ghost'. It is very much a companion to an earlier picture I made called The Hour of Haunting, which was a sort of premonition of this.
There is a rather uncanny photograph - a 'bromoil transfer' - on display at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona; it's by Joachim Pla Janini, and has 'la hora del fantasma' written in pencil below the picture. The hour of the ghost. It shows a cowled figure standing upright in a small boat on a calm sea or lake, in front of a rocky shore. This photograph affected me quite strangely, and somehow inhabited my mind - perhaps haunted is a better word - and kept recurring as a half-remembered vision which I had subsequently to research online, until I could find it there, on the screen of my computer. I had to ensure I hadn't dreamt it.
I returned to The Hour of Haunting and imagined a more distant view of the twisted oak at the centre of that picture, and it became clear that the tree stood on an island wreathed in fog, a clamour of rooks flew above, disturbed in the silence by something unknown, and there, on the quiet water was a small boat with a single passenger - a cowled figure standing upright. All this is present in The Hour of the Ghost.
This print is available only via The Lost Domain; the edition is a timed release that will be available to order on August 10th from 18:00 GMT+1 for the following 48 hours.
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