“In an 'auto-archeological' pursuit of identity, I began collecting my late grandfather's digital archives, downloading information from the library of floppy disks he left behind. The sloppily re-formatted Word documents and low-quality imagery struck me as indications of the images' journey across time and of my grandfather's extended autonomy post-mortem. Technological transgressions transformed into mediations of his spirit, though I also stumbled across information contradictory to the person I believed him to be. My work is mourning, unravelling and complicating my cross-dimensional relationship with my grandfather as inseparable from the objects and landscapes we negotiate. Visually intertwining my body amongst my grandfather's digital archives and the turbulent ecology of his birthplace, Sao Miguel, Portugal, I co-opt the ghost as a speculative framework to reconcile his contradictory character. My compositions implicate viewers into my mourning process as shapes emerge, re-emerge and envelope. As soon as one motif swims to the surface, another fades into abstraction. Across my body of work, I bridge the dive between life and death through the digital to engage spiritualists and skeptics in my ongoing search for personal futurity. ”