The images are photographs of advertising posters, mostly faces, some are built up in layers, which is the title of the project. The posters have weathered over time, become torn. They are at the halfway stage of evanescence (only lasting for a short time: Cambridge dictionary!) between newness and being effaced. A metaphor for life, the human condition.... One poster layered on top of the other, like societies, empires, civilizations, nothing is permanent. Only traces left. The weeds overtake, the metal rusts, the walls crumble, the paint cracks, the wooden frame rots, the varnish yellows…
I think there is something attractive in the disintegration of these posters. There is some value in the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi, seeing beauty in imperfection. The weathering process adds a coating, a veneer, as the original image fades. Nature’s invisible hand seems to create its own art on the way to a grey sameness.
