Rachel Whiteread explains her fascinating sculpture, “Ghost.” She describes how the feeling to create such a piece came about. After her college years she had to live in a small space because of financial issues. This inspired her to re-create the feeling of living in such an environment and allow the viewers to experience the same sort of “claustrophobia.”
The sculpture was to be cast with plaster, which Whiteread constructed herself building up the plaster on the walls, with metal frame, and flicking the material to create texture and feel to the inside walls. The block was to resemble a room and contain a fireplace, window, “Mantle,” “Torso,” “Closet,” and “Shallow Breath.” The key elements to the piece are the objects that project an actual presence of a real living space. Although while preparing for this work, Whiteread says how she spent a good amount of time creating drawings that fit the composition she was searching for and making the perspective properly. Later, when beginning the process of strengthening the walls, she encountered problems with the dry walls flaking or breaking, which she had to keep repairing. The outcome of the piece is mysterious yet captivating by it's haunting presence and familiar objects contained within the structure. Whiteread certainly presented the idea she had in mind with clarity and formed an essence within the room that expressed her experiences from the past.
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