The Invisible Woman: Phantasma

October 31st 1933 Tonight, my mind is restless, haunted by the baffling Invisible Woman. She is an unsettling contradiction, an entity profoundly felt yet eerily unseen, birthed from a twisted blend of science and a desperate yearning to escape the abyss of anonymity. It’s not her invisibility that unsettles us, but rather the mirror she holds up, reflecting the ghostly echoes of our silent fears and unvoiced desires. We are afraid of her not because we cannot see her, but because she embodies the silent terror of insignificance that lurks within each of us. In a world obsessed with acknowledgment, where our worth is too often measured by the eyes that perceive us, her curse of invisibility mirrors our own inner nightmares. We, too, are camouflaged, masked, each a specter seeking visibility amidst a sea of glaring lights and shadowed corners. She’s a reminder that our frantic quest for recognition, the desperate actions taken just to be seen, can transform us, turn us into entities estranged and fearsome. Reflecting in the uneasy quiet, where visibility and obscurity intertwine in a haunting dance, Lorraine Hawthorne