THIRD TONES

Third Tones is the sequential body of work leading on from Optical Wonders and in conjunction with one of Maxime’s oldest collections comprised of office stickers and pins that developed over a ten-year period.

The detailed application of cut-outs in the Optical Wonders series required working with a magnifying glass, which led to the discovery of the printing process and half-tone formation of dots. From the close-up of these came ‘Third Tones’ the structural separation of the photographic printing process to transform a one-dimensional print into a three dimensional multi-layered photographic reconstruction

Each of the Third Tones is produced by working from an enlarged detail of a printed photograph, that is laminated onto foam to create a framework to apply the stickers and provide depth for the pins to be secure.