Layers- Leah Macdonald Opening

"Layers" is a new body of work that explores accumulation, memory, and transformation through photography, printmaking, and encaustic. Each piece is built through a process of layered collaging—images are added, obscured, reworked, and repositioned so that no single layer is fixed or final. Leah Macdonald intentionally varies her techniques from layer to layer, switching the roles and placement of painting and photography to disrupt hierarchy and expectation.

Using photographs of women, horses, and flowers, these works hover between presence and erasure. The encaustic surface both preserves and conceals, allowing fragments to surface while others recede. By adding layers together rather than resolving them, "Layers" reflects the complexity of identity, strength, and vulnerability—where meaning is formed not in a single image, but in the tension and dialogue between them.

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