My work explores the visual culture of cartography, text, occult imagery, game boards, geographical souvenirs, and other structures of information that is altered to examine the relationship of identity, space, and place. The disruption of these visual systems reveals a thin boundary between the known and unknown, between knowledge and superstition. The repetitive hand-mechanical process used in stitching, layering, piercing or accumulation gives the work an added inference of compulsivity, craft, and concern. The embroidery needle or awl cuts through the surfaces of ephemeral objects and alters the original structure of information in a physical and hybrid transformation. Caul (The Twins, Outside Everything) is from the Caul/Ectoplasm series, which takes stitched embellishment over found photographs of subjects to reference and explore the spiritualist practice in capturing “ectoplasm” in seance photography and/ or the idea that birth cauls were once thought to be supernatural omens. Stitching and beading these superstitions and occult harbingers are a way to make physical something that is often only feared, hoaxed, or ephemeral. The diptych of is a doppelganger that also explores the dichotomy of known and unknown, image and object, and the spectral and physical.