Larger photography edits

I have been working on larger photography edits - working with collage, different materials and creating illusions.
The images below show my development; photographs showing my experimentation with different materials - reflective surfaces/layering images etc.

Process: I started off with two large A0+ tracing paper and getting some of 'Organic' photographs printed onto them at Gosta Green (digitally edited images of flowers and trees).
ORIGINAL IMAGES:

My thoughts were that I wanted to display an 'iconic' or easily recognised image that would represent transition so naturally I thought of an insect - inparticular a butterfly. I had experiemented with using a leaf image with my developmental pieces but I decided it was not a clear/obvious image.
Firtsly, I cut out butterfly images from my large 'Growth' print then experimented with putting different materials underneath the cut-out images. I used a mirrored piece of card which created an interesting effect especially when I overlayed the cut-out images near it.

 

Layering the two images on top of each other:

 

 

I feel the overlaying of the images worked more effectively to portray the themes of my project and also created a more interesting piece to show a mixture of imagery and materials.