Encoded within the yellowed pages of old notebooks lies the enigmatic Vatis Species—or ‘the appearance of the seer’—a Latin phrase that serves as an incantation, summoning a presence able to perceive beyond the visible. From these faint transmissions, twenty-four drawings emerge: a rogue’s gallery of elusive, shifty figures, dredged from the subconscious and left to wander according to their own dark devices. These ghostly apparitions behave as intermediaries to the past — a window to the pre-Code horror comics, pulp magazines, and crackling atmospheres of old radio dramas that inspired their conception. Wearing faces that open psychic interiors, these liminal beings are suspended between emergence and disappearance, momentarily caught in the act of crossing from the imaginal realm onto the physical page. To truly see these works is to understand them not merely as a collection of invented personages, but as an expansive oneiric realm—a dream terrain in which memory and fantasy merge into a single, shifting continuum. The characters of Vatis Species drift through this space like restless archetypes, seeking coherence, perpetually drawn toward mysteries that hover just beyond conscious thought. In this suspended state, the drawings invite viewers to confront their own internal landscapes, to consider how much of perception is shaped by what is hidden, unspoken, or only half-recalled. Through their quiet intensity, the works suggest that the unseen is never truly absent—it simply waits for those willing to look long enough to find it.