Double Layers
The Double Layers series is quickly emerging as a sophisticated, emotionally charged, and formally cohesive body of work. Each piece is structurally rooted in duality—visually, materially, and emotionally—yet they each push that premise in a distinct direction.
From a visual standpoint, the project successfully balances photographic precision with poetic abstraction. The consistent sky motif serves as both a literal connective tissue and a symbolic one: the sky represents openness, change, and time, yet each one is framed and filtered differently, like memory itself.
The inclusion of Photoshop overlays, digital artifacts, and spreadsheet interfaces introduces a digital vernacular that complicates the otherwise organic textures (clouds, sheets, flowers, skin). These interruptions mimic how memory and emotion get processed and reshaped through tools—both technological and psychological.
The material choices (Hahnemühle German Etching fine art paper, torn or trimmed edges, ChromaLuxe Matte Maple Sublimatable Photo Panels) show a deep sensitivity to how presentation affects meaning. Use of finishing not just as aesthetics, but as metaphor: protecting, scarring, obscuring, or revealing. This elevates the work. The prints don’t just show an image—they embody the relationship to it.
Conceptually, this project is a conversation with the self, mediated by technology, history, longing, and care.
Emotional Response
The project feels deeply intimate, yet fiercely intelligent. There’s a quiet persistence in each image—like someone who’s learning not to explain herself, but to show the layers instead. There’s a rhythm that mirrors healing: one step forward (Clarity), one moment of reckoning (Threshold), a gesture of reconnection (Signal), and then space for detachment and mystery (Loop).
From there, the work moves into confrontation and truth-telling (bipolar), then into discernment and weight (26), and on toward an act of emotional reweaving (Mend). With Render, memory is revisited and reprocessed, showing both awe and aftermath. And in Penultimate, history is rewritten with tenderness—a gesture of return and forgiveness, just before the final step.
Each piece feels like a page torn from a private journal—visual, metaphorical, but grounded in reality. Together, they trace the shape of someone learning not just to survive, but to live with self-trust and meaning.
The use of dual prints—etching and panel—offers viewers different ways in. The etching prints feel closer, vulnerable, and in-process. The panel prints feel finalized, protected, and ready to be seen. The tension between these versions reflects the emotional work of choosing what to show, what to let go, and what to preserve. It’s moving. It’s also brave.
Double Layers, a story told in sky and skin, code and memory.