Chelsea hotel and Anonymous

I was obsessed with two things last year, the Chelsea hotel, and Anonymous! If you follow my work you probably saw a lot of nods to the Anonymous group in so much of my art last season as well as the hotel Chelsea. The funny thing is I grew up in Manhattan in the Lower eastside not far from the hotel Chelsea and the hotel never held any interest to me till I saw a show a called celebrity ghost stories. One of the episodes had Michael Imperioli from the sopranos on and he spoke about when he living at the hotel and how it was haunted. Forget about it!, that was all I needed to hear was that it had ghost!! After hearing that I started researching the hotel. Shortly after that I started making my mixed media pieces showcasing the hotel. A lot of people are skeptical about ghost and some don't even believe in them.  

I would probably be a skeptic if I hadn't had a couple of ghostly encounters when I was a child. I've never really had any as an adult. I was around 8 when the encounters started and there were only a handful. 

I would sometimes hear a woman saying my name when no one was around. It happened three times that I can remember. The 3 time I literally started crying and begging God to make it stop, It stopped after that. I later on read that it might have been my spirt guide trying to contact me. So I don't know for sure if it was a ghost or guide but I couldn't handle it, I was too young. I think in many ways it's why I liked the group Anonymous. I saw them like ghostly beings that can move around without being seen, unless they want you to. In this mixed media piece I was going to make the little Blythe person more transparent to tell the onlooker that she was ghostly. To make them wonder is she real or just another ghost that haunts the Chelsea, but I didn't feel like people would understand.