This body of work investigates the concept of “Layer” as both a visual strategy and a methodological framework. Beginning with a translation of Photoshop’s digital layer logic into a physical system using tracing paper, the experiments first explored how rules, variables, and chance operations can generate layered outcomes.
Through overlapping transparency, new hues and intricate intersections emerged. The resulting compositions were documented and reassembled into graphic posters, translating a digital concept of layering into a tactile, generative process. Building on the previous tracing paper layering study, this iteration explores the metaphor of mineral crystal growth. Using watercolor and controlled physical conditions, each layer is created by timed pigment pulses on a wetted surface. Two key variables — time intervals and board tilt angles — are introduced to influence how colors expand and settle. The process documents how abstract geological growth can be translated into a visual system, generating organic, ring-like formations that echo natural strata.
