Folio: Adding transparencies to double printing

This exploration has involved adding a third layer to my double printed images.

To achieve the third layer and in one instance a fourth layer, I have printed a selection of black and white onto transparencies. 

I liked the extra layer a lot for four reasons:

·     It created a new layer of complexity

·     it reduced the specificity another level

·     you could see how the new layer effected the double print and

·     the shiny transparencies gave the photographs an unexpected gloss.

But they're very hard to photograph! So what I’ve done is photographed them opened like a book (showing the transparency on the left and the double-printed photograph on the right) and then closed showing the effect of the third layer.

 

This last one has two transparency layers.