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Fantasma is a Portuguese word meaning Ghost or Phantasm. It can be described as "that which has only seeming reality or permanence","a dream, illusion, fantasy". The word comes from the Latin phantasma, denoting “specter, apparition", which in turn derives from the Greek phantasma – "image, phantom, unreality" – and from the word phantazein: "to make visible, display”.

The word Fantasma is a fitting title to this group of isolated human figures. Each painting began with one or more images from the artist’s archive of historical photographs, film frames …