David Spriggs

Now that I have completed my work it seems there are a million artists out there working in a similar way with layers of transparency to create three dimensional photographic works.

Here's a guy that knows what he's doing!

David Spriggs Axis of Power

"An exploration into concepts of space and the relationships between the thresholds of the 2 and 3 dimensions; the immaterial form; perception; deconstruction; time; movement including speed and stasis; phenomena; the body; the appropriation of symbols; and the strategies of power.

With influences from Futurism and Cubism to current digital media art and cinema, these hybrids of two and three dimensions bring together painting, drawing, photography, digital media, and sculpture, to create a spatial image system.

Topographical cross-sections of a subject are painted or drawn onto sheets of transparent film. The sheets are specifically spaced and hung apart to reveal the appearance of three-dimensional forms in a state of suspension.

Like linear perspective is to the 2D world; layered perspective allows the possibility of new representations through this illusionary image space. The multiple image planes together establish a perspective in which the viewer can alter their viewing angle to change the 'image form' as one walks around the piece. It is a dematerialization of the picture plane through the combining of multiple picture planes." from David Spriggs Artwork Archive