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With the support of an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, I have been traveling with researchers into remote forests that were once used by the indigenous, reindeer-herding people of Scandinavia, the Sami. The northwest of Sweden is stark and craggy, with clear-cut vistas surrounding vast expanses of untouched, Scotts pine forest. Throughout these woods, one can encounter sacred trees, boulders, mountains and settlements once inhabited by the Sami. Drawing from a rich tradition of spirit photography and early experiments with the medium, I populate this landscape with ghostly figures, two headed-mystics and indecipherable signs. I then weave these manipulated images with empty, eerie environments layered with cultural traces, asking the viewer to question the reality of what they are seeing.