Celine Artigau Sees Neon Ghosts Everywhere She Looks

French artist Celine Artigau is never really alone. In her series of manipulated photographs, “Goodbye Childhood”, she inserts spectral neon figures into photos of places with personal resonance. She says: “These luminous characters are the souls of these places and ghosts of my childhood. They are like some lonely and abandoned imaginary friends that still follow me and haunt my life.” Sometimes sweet, sometimes sad, the figures are simple outlines rendered with a neon glow.
Their simplicity is what makes them work.