Elizabeth, Empress of Austria in the late 19th century, lived on the edge of madness. Known by the nickname of Sisi, she took refuge in isolation and illness and eventually fled the royal court in Vienna to live in seclusion, mostly in the Achillion Palace she built on the Greek island of Corfu. In 1898, an anarchist stabbed her to death. In this photograph, I attempt to depict the restless spirit of Sisi by photographing a statue of her that stands by the palace entrance. I change the image from real to unreal, and completely alter the mood of the photograph by converting it from color to black and white. The menacing shadows on the wall intensify accordingly. With her back to us, a ghostly pale Sisi quietly slips out of the frame.