History Overlays
History Overlays is an ongoing photography series, in which photographs taken on the same day of the month are superimposed using the overlay mode in Photoshop. Using a musical metaphor, it is like superimposed triads, e.g. D/C (D over C).
In this image, a photograph taken of an Ellsworth Kelly sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago on February 7, 2017, is superimposed over people walking in the rain on August 7, 2009, a historical distance of 90 months, and a physical distance of two city blocks. The superimposition is a kind of "double exposure", making history translucent, allowing us to see both the present and past simultaneously.
If exhibited in a gallery, the images would be printed on glass and hung so that the viewer can see through history while walking around the gallery space, similar to Gerhard Richter's House of Cards.
