Culture-ghosts encompasses a period of experimentation in 2021 that resulted in the creation of two related, but distinctly conceptually different bodies of work.

The first, being large to medium size paintings on linen, that utilize a dualist split screen division of the canvas into two opposing panels.

The panels contrast both hard edge geometric angular planes, evocative of the bright, garish graphics of 1980's Australian Milk Bar signage and advertising, with loosely rendered outlines of both Australian and American cartoon characters of 1980's morning television and mail order comics.

Other images are hewn from the pages of Australasian Post, cheesy tourism postcards, greeting and gift cards, all fragments that were indelibly imprinted on the young artists mind, whilst fascinated by the visual impact of barber shop waiting room magazines of the period. These works are populated by these strong visual fragments intuitively inscribed on the artists emotional childhood memory.

These works are a non-intellectual exploration of how emotionally arousing images from childhood are seen more vividly and are remembered with more emotional valance as a result.

This may be because the amygdala focuses visual attention rather than more cognitive attention on an arousing image.

Emotion affects memory and attention affects our perception.

The works explore the emotional language and role of cartoons as stylization, simplification and reduction of complex emotions and their direct cultural impact, and how they can act like the 'masks of the Greek chorus’, commenting on the absurdities, confusion and the grotesques of contemporary Australian culture.