Skins or layers show transparencies and porosities, as well as change and transformation. Decay can also take on many of these characteristics—especially when associated with aging.
Here are the beginnings of a lexicon of skins, change and decay that can be used to help describe what my photo composites might evoke:
blistered wrinkled pleated fringed feathered decayed peeled ravaged distressed decomposed degenerated destroyed deteriorated dying changed renewed reborn transformed surfacing skin pellicle flesh encounters interrelated intertwined co-responsive intercalated folds layers crossovers interminglings (in)visible transparencies translucency superimposed porosities veils strata resonance (inter)connectedness liminality intercorporeity
