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Just a couple notes on how this was created: I cross-processed C41 to E6 (which if any of you have tried, you know you have to overexpose by at least 3 stops and you get a color cast that overrides the entire image, as if you had shot through a filter and that color cast changes from film to film and light source to light source), I then sandwiched two of the transparencies together in a glass slide mount and printed it onto regular C process paper to create a paper negative. I did this several times and one time I sort of tore the image out of the paper and I used that paper neg to make the final print, which is why the border is the way it is and why there is fall-off on the focus because I didn't flatten the paper neg with glass. Then I scanned, no retouching, no Photoshop.

Why did I do all of this? Well, in the days when I had a darkroom, it was more like: Why Not? This predates (shot circa 1993) the explosion age of digital illustration.

I know some people say Photoshop is everything. I am not one of those people.