Welcome to monthly ghost, an eclectic, multi-genre newsletter of ghost stories.
This month’s piece is more of an experiment/art project than a story. Submit something abstract (a memory), and in response, we’ll return a text/image pairing (an interpretation), all of which will be collected in a simple, anonymous online gallery. For future projects from monthly ghost, you can subscribe here.
Introducing the ghost curator:
In exchange for the description of a single childhood memory—provided by you, the reader—our curator will provide one (1) ghost, comprised of image (an artwork) and text (a poem fragment). We will gather all of these images/texts—not the memories themselves, those will stay private—in an anonymous digital gallery, which is live here. More details below. Hope you enjoy— a little gazing, a little mystery in these weird times of ours.
What images, what texts?
the image you receive: will be from (whatever available) digital archives of the world’s shuttered museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural institutions, selected to complement your memory. A digital image, in this case, is a ghost of the real thing, unvisitable and far away.
the text you receive: will be brand new. A side dish for the selected artwork, this will be a poem fragment, also blooming from the memory provided. If it’s been a while since you’ve had a tiny poem written just for you, today’s the day.
How do you submit a memory?
anonymously through this form. Be sure to pick a number so that when the ghost curator posts these images/texts in the gallery, you’ll be able to identify which image/text is yours.
reply directly to this email if you’re not shy about this whole memory business. You’ll receive your image/text by email, after which they will join their fellow ghosts in the gallery.
View all images/texts here on our ghost curator gallery, where you’ll see a collage of the gathered artworks and poem fragments. The memories themselves will not be shared.
Postcard for this issue found here.
This is, also, a friendly reminder to support relief funds for culture keepers and community spaces and projects that you believe in, and to commission work from artists/creators/thinkers you admire. Especially the nontraditional, underfunded, and overlooked.