b r i e f : The images are photographic representations of a Photoshop filtering process called "shearing". The source image is of a medium in a trance state whose likeness has been sheared not once, but a hundred times or more. The final image that was once a portrait has been sliced and folded into very thin lines and is rendered unrecognizable. Amazingly, when the image is sheared enough, the whole original image is reconstituted, if only in part. When represented on the studio computer, it cycles in an animated appearance of an apparition, not wholly complete, but with definite echoes of what it once was. Some of the newly reconstituted image gets lost while other bits aid in a new reconstitution of the former original. Pixels are computer determined threads that work to carry forth and 'make' the next reconstituted image. The cycling of the "sheared" images disintegrate as they are reinvented.