Seeing Things At DRKRM Gallery

drkrm. gallery
2121 San Fernando Road, Suite3, Los Angeles, CA 90065
323-223-6867
E-mail, drkrm@mac.com
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After years of dismissing inexplicable sounds, fleeting images and broken crockery, owners of a modest Mt. Washington (Los Angeles) home began to suspect that their house may be haunted. They began taking Polaroid pictures of cold spots and places in the house where their Saint Bernard refused to tread. What they got back were snapshots that were anything but ordinary. In fact, it changed their lives forever.

Drkrm. Gallery is hosting a special Halloween week retrospective called SEEING THINGS. It is the first public viewing of this rare and unique collection  of paranormal photographs. As featured on the TV shows SIGHTINGS and UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES, these images are just a fraction of the hundreds of photos captured in the last two decades, most never before seen by the public.

Most of the photographs on display were taken before Photoshop, digital imaging and cell phone cameras changed photography. Each Polaroid is original and unique. They show familiar rooms with wispy, feathery tendrils and misty tufts of white substances and, amazingly, cloud-like writing. Even more extraordinary is the relevance of the words to whatever questions had been asked. Usually a response came in English, but sometimes it appeared in Latin. For example, after questioning the identity of the answering spirit, a response came in Latin; “Et alla Corpus delicti,” (among other things, a murder victim). The words floating in midair were invisible when the photo was taken.

Renowned spiritualist and psychic Peter James was called in to explore this phenomenon, in addition to three other psychics who also lent their insight to this investigation.  James visited the house numerous times and believes that it is situated on the grounds of an ancient ritual site and that spirits are definitely trying to communicate with the living.

SEEING THINGS explores the boundary between the known and the unknown. It asks whether something as simple and functional as photographs of record — people at a party, an empty room, an open door — can be a gateway to something more. These startling photographs challenge perceptions of reality and art. Is the image of the room with the ghostly writing the way we see ghosts, or is it the way ghosts see us? Who is seeing things, after all? Come explore these strangely surreal photographs and decide for yourself.

drkrm. gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to fine art and documentary photography, cutting edge and alternative photographic processes and the display and survey of popular cultural images.

All gallery events are free and open to the public.