Double Exposure B&W III

Each frame stacks two visible scenes: hard-edged objects and lettered signs on one layer, plants or patterned surfaces on the other, so that neither layer fully covers the other.

double exposure / black and white / trailer / water lily / lily pads

The sequence opens on the rear doors of a trailer marked 5850, WABASH, and DURAPLATE, with a large many-petaled flower overlaid across the center and dark liquid-like shapes pooling along the bottom. A dotted-light DO NOT ENTER sign follows, its circle floating over water and lily pads with a single open blossom at the top of the ring.

A bright line-drawn skull then hangs over cloudy sky and dark foliage, a tall pointed tower rising behind one eye socket. The final two frames move indoors and onto tarmac: rows of empty seats face gridded windows where one person stands while a dark grid of panes covers the floor, and an aircraft wing and engine reach toward a covered mobile stair crowded with people, the whole view laced with a dense leaf pattern and a column of bright dots.

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Images

Numerals 5850 and the words WABASH and DURAPLATE on a trailer's rear doors, with a large many-petaled flower overlaid across the center.
Two round tail lights, a vertical latch bar, and a license plate sit beneath the overlaid blossom, while dark liquid-like shapes pool along the lower edge.
A dotted-light sign reading DO NOT ENTER inside a circle floats over lily pads on water, with one open lily blossom at the top of the ring.
The sign's dotted horizontal bar crosses the pads between the upper line DO NOT and the lower word ENTER, while rippled water shows dark reflections in the upper right.
A bright line-drawn skull outline with grinning teeth overlays a cloudy sky, dark foliage, and a tall pointed tower rising behind its left-hand eye socket.
Pale cloud-like foliage fills the cranium while the lower jaw sits over dark leaves at the bottom of the frame.
Rows of empty seats face a wall of gridded windows where one person stands, while a dark grid of panes overlays the lower floor.
A second exposure lays a lattice of dark rectangles across the bottom band and a strip of building and cropped lettering across the top.
An aircraft wing and engine extend over tarmac toward a covered mobile stair with several people, all overlaid by a dense leaf pattern.
A vertical column of bright dots runs down the left side and a large curved pale form spreads across the upper right.