"Sometimes it is a matter of painting, photographing, re-photographing, taking portraits, layering images or layering paint, using different types of paper when printing, like transparencies and translucent wash paper.
The Starns have manipulated image quality in all sorts of ways: altering color, layering images, enhancing clarity or graininess, framing pictures within pictures and so on.
For those interested in rubber stamping, for instance, there are sections on everything from carving your own erasers into stamps to layering images to create a customized look.
His thick, deep frames invite you to get lost within their painted folds, layering images on top of each other to create an impossible depth.
In "Billions," layered images represent layered humanity and layered experience.
Apart from mirrorless cameras, there have been improvements in sensors and a technology called high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, which layers images at different exposures.
They are not prints, of course, just skillfully layered images.
It includes some flat, lifeless Photo Realist paintings that borrow a lot from David Salle's layered images but not nearly enough, and several smaller sculptures.
His use of voluptuous colors, unbalanced composition and busy, layered images suggests both the bursting, overcapitalized nature of information technology today as well as the artist's deeper faith in the authenticity of the human relationships behind it.
Despite this, it's an utterly compelling compendium of ghostly, layered images, combined with languid shots of Ocean plastering some kind of numbing agent onto his face, which he then morphs into all manner of odd shapes.
