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Alan Coligado says: “This is one of my fledgling attempts at multiple exposures through layering in Photoshop. It is a composite image of a mural and a discarded mattress I found while exploring street art in Sydney’s Inner West last January. My intention was to blur the boundaries between what one can see physically and what one can only imagine or ‘visualise’.”

This is an interesting image and is reminiscent of the pre-digital technique of sandwiching a texture screen with a negative. Today, it can be done digitally, but the concept is the same. Here, I think the mattress texture and lines are a little too dominant and reduce the 

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