Schema

Not all ghosts arrive in the dark. Some are created in full view.

An experimental narrative told through fragments that dismantle the comforting illusion that memory acts as a reliable record. In truth, no two people remember the same dead person because memory is not an observation, it’s a distortion.

The Schema philosophy teaches us that the most powerful hauntings are those we write ourselves through belief and repetition. The man who lived and died in Sycamore Street was a shifting accumulation of his family and neighbours’ perspectives. Once these stories are woven into the social fabric, they become an indelible part of the landscape.

This leaves us with a conclusion far more unsettling than a traditional ghost story. We must realise that we are all, at this very moment, being mis-remembered by those around us. We are currently being reduced to our own ‘beige jackets’ in the minds of our peers. The haunting isn’t something that waits for you in the afterlife. It’s a social reality happening now. 

What version of you is being authored in the shadows of your neighbours’ memories, and what distortions will they use to define you once you’re gone?