Evolving from a series of watercolor monotypes of family photographs, I began using historical photographs of documentation of the Armenian Genocide. I individualized each face from a group of Armenians standing over skeletons of their family, mourning their loss. Each face resembled a skeleton or a ghost. Through the process of creating a monoprint, even more detail was lost. The portraits became literal ghost images, or masks. Many of the portrait photographs I have integrated into my work have been obscured and distorted. These portraits mask the identity of the individuals. The people in these pictures lose all distinct characteristics and identity; the universal theme of genocide is to ignore or remove the personal identity of individuals and exterminate them based on a single attribute. The photographic elements emphasize the idea of the lost or forgotten entity, the individual that was once there, but is now gone—the ghost.