Welcome to Ghostlight!

Hello, internet traveler. I am very excited to introduce you to "Ghostlight," my personal site with a little (a lot of) theatre flair.

I was introduced to Neocities and the Web Revival by a dear friend of mine and more or less decided to let it consume my life for a little bit. Hopefully this hobby sticks.

Shortly after discovering the aforementioned friend's site, I found myself traveling through a series of links to the Yesterweb Manifesto page. Utterly and completely inspired, I decided I had to become a part of this.

I spent several days just clicking through folks' sites via their Button Pages, allowing myself to absorb inspiration and ideas. It took me downloading Pixelorama and making some art to finally come up with a theme for my site. I was in a toss up between some of my aesthetic interests. Could it be a forest? Could it be a theater?

I was certain the site needed to have a setting, a theme. I was really inspired by other sites whose splash pages evoked a certain specific place and feeling. To be quite honest, I can't remember how I got to Ghostlight from there. I do know it had to to with a desire for liminality and mysterious intrigue.

The first thing I made for the site was actually its button! It was my second piece of pixel art and I am actually very proud of it.

Since I am a must-work-in-order type person, I started with the splash page and worked until I perfected it. It went through several interations (of entering from a mysterious door on the street, entering a mysterious door from darkness) to here, where you just get to dive right in to the theatre with a resounding "Welcome!" Since a warm welcome kind of betrays the liminality of it all, I am instead embracing the silliness of it.

In the spirit of embracing what a project becomes, I am excited to see where this project takes me, and to see how my goals for it take shape.