Double Exposure B&W (I)
Layered 35mm monochrome frames that let signs, boats, branches, and stone carvings occupy the same moment.
The roll opens in a tangle: the drooping branches of a bare tree laid over the grid of a building's windows, the sun burning a small white hole through the middle of both. Neither layer wins. The architecture keeps trying to assert its straight lines, and the branches keep erasing them, until the frame reads less like a place than like the memory of two places at once.
Then the water takes over. A ghostly wheel of light — the spokes of something bright and turning — floats against a row of weathered waterfront warehouses, with small flares standing along the quay like lit wicks. A white dinghy noses across dark water while loops of luminous handwriting scrawl themselves over its wake. Frame by frame the writing resolves: 'good' unspooling in neon cursive across the harbor's surface, then 'spirits' stretched over the silhouette of a cat draped bonelessly across a ledge, one paw hanging into the word.
The set closes on stone rather than light: a carved cherub tucked into the sweep of a gothic arch, cheek turned up, wing folded behind it. After all the layering, the last frame plays it straight — or nearly. In a roll where signs write themselves on water, even a solid stone face starts to look like something exposed twice.
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