The ghosts represent a modification of an interesting
geometry that Professor Roger Penrose sent to M.C. Escher in late
1971 or early 1972, asking Escher to do a figurative tiling with it.
Escher, virtually on his death bed, complied. He produced what turned
out to be his very last tiling, which I understand he called "my little
ghosties". Using this geometry for the first time, I was aware of
this story, and so I was thinking about 'ghosties'. My ghosts are
the result. Here is the procedure for using the geometry R. Penrose
gave M.C.E. to create a tiling that will tile as do my ghosts, in
an infinite number of different ways.
1.) Modify a side of a 60 / 120 rhomb.
2.) Rotate this side around its adjacent acute angle
to form a second side.
3.) Rotate this same side around its adjacent obtuse
angle to form a third side.
4.) Reflect the same side across the rhomb to form
a fourth side. (So far, that is the procedure Escher used for his
"ghosties".)
5.) Divide the tile thus formed into two tiles by
means of a line which is point symmetric around the center point of
the rhomb.