In the background, the artist's white noise composition – made from the digital layering of the album – plays.
Check out that careful layering of the shirt and coat collar, and then again at the cuffs.
Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work.
What struck me when I first read him was the audacity: the shameless layering of the references - the unabashed romance and hilarity of the authorial voice.
The point of "One and Only You" seems to be the layering of the plot and the real-life struggles of its writer, Jack.
Yet something about the particular layering of the two worlds, the vérité New York and the romantic Hollywood artifice, lends a spectral mystique to an otherwise pedestrian composition.
"They're typically very busy looking, a layering of the flowers, the leaves and the branches, and not a lot of negative space," she said.
Lunching there on a visit this summer, my wife, Jennifer, and I marveled at the Bunyanesque layering of the featured sandwich, the C.C.C. Club, presumably a testimonial to members' appetites.
The Colovoses, who say that their style has been shaped by the angular construction and complex layering of the Japanese vanguard, and by the ghostly palette of painters like Marlene Dumas, maintain that such comparisons are inevitable.
For a while he waved his hands over and around them, almost dancing, changing the width and layering of the sound; then he returned to the microphone, shrieking more heavily and gutturally, curling down to the floor and shaking.
In fairness, you couldn't get a denser layering of the ways: I half expected to see the lost eagle of the Ninth Legion being carried out of a hospitality marquee by James Watt.
