Ghost, 2023 - Luke Haeger
Luke Haeger
Ghost, 2023
Pencil and inkjet on Chateau Marmont stationery
Approx. 11.5 × 8.5 in (29.2 × 21.6 cm)
Unique work
Luke Haeger’s Ghost (2023) captures a moment of raw psychological rupture—an inkjet print of Martin Sheen breaking down in a Saigon hotel room the night before his mission begins in Apocalypse Now. Printed on Chateau Marmont stationery and delicately intervened upon with pencil, the work threads together themes of collapse, isolation, and interior descent.
The choice of materials is deliberate: the hotel letterhead, itself a symbol of both luxury and myth, becomes a stage for unraveling. Haeger’s subtle pencil gestures—neither overt nor decorative—function like tremors across the surface, echoing the fragility and tension of the scene. The result is a portrait not of a man, but of a moment suspended between breakdown and becoming.
A deeply poetic object that merges cinematic iconography with conceptual drawing, Ghost is a meditation on vulnerability, memory, and the ghosts we carry. A compelling addition for collectors attuned to the interplay of image, psychology, and artifact.