Core Persona 1: Amber — Reverse Transparency
Amber was a core persona that developed as an inquiry into mediation, interference, and the unstable surface of reverse transparency painting. Early studies (on acetate) established a vocabulary of layered gesture and transparency, where marks could hover, misalign, and partially cancel one another. Attempts to compress this language into graphic clarity revealed its limits, prompting a return to saturation and scale.
Figuration re-entered through classical sculpture, not as subject but as test case. Horizontal drags and interference strokes began to function structurally, interrupting depth and displacing volume. Over time, the interference became autonomous, first obscuring the image, then replacing it.
By 2020, the logic of mediation began to fracture the image itself. Pixelation, sculptural citation, and surface reversal collapsed into one another. What began as layered transparency evolved into image destabilization — a platform where images became layered, complicated and non-hierarchical.
Amber was a core persona that developed as an inquiry into mediation, interference, and the unstable surface of reverse transparency painting. Early studies (on acetate) established a vocabulary of layered gesture and transparency, where marks could hover, misalign, and partially cancel one another. Attempts to compress this language into graphic clarity revealed its limits, prompting a return to saturation and scale.
Figuration re-entered through classical sculpture, not as subject but as test case. Horizontal drags and interference strokes began to function structurally, interrupting depth and displacing volume. Over time, the interference became autonomous, first obscuring the image, then replacing it.
By 2020, the logic of mediation began to fracture the image itself. Pixelation, sculptural citation, and surface reversal collapsed into one another. What began as layered transparency evolved into image destabilization — a platform where images became layered, complicated and non-hierarchical.
