Three years after I lost my mother the idea of ‘the ghost’ started to emerge in my work. In my journey I began looking for pieces of my mother in the house. I found many photos and clothes which had always been there but which I had ignored over the years. There she was smiling and posing in these clothes. My reconnection with her became a visual manipulation of ‘her-our’ histories. I began inserting myself into her pictorial narrative by emulating these snaps of her from my family album. I would dress in the exact clothes that she was wearing in these twenty-year-old photographs and mimic the same poses. This was my way of marrying the two memories (mine and of my mother's). I later developed digital photomontages where I juxtaposed old photographs of my mother retrieved from the family ar- chives with photographs of a ‘present version of her’– me to reconstruct a new story and a commonality: she is me, I am her and there remains in this common- ality so much difference, and so much distance in space and time. The photomontages became a substitute for the paucity of memory, a forged identification and imagined conversation.