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I have been continuing to create these 'collaged photos' but layering them even further to create and even more collaged photo. I used the first lot of images to be held over another person's face.

.I find these photographs successful as they do create a whole new character and a whole new gender. The idea of a new character being created is reminiscent of when a transexual changes 'gender'. They essentially create a new persona for themselves, choosing a new gendered name, choosing a new way to dress and potentially a new way to behave.
Changing gender is, in many ways, changing identity.
According to Joan Rough-Garden in the book Evolutions Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People, biologically, sex is defined by the size of gametes, sperm and eggs, and thesefore by what produces them, testicles or ovaries.
So if a person produces sperm then they are male and if they produce eggs then they are female. What problems does this biological standpoint raise for transexuals?
Well, even if they were to remove the organs producing either egg or sperm- they still can't produce the other so, biologically, according to this theory, they can never truly be the gender they are aspiring to be.
There is a new, different gender, that produces neither sperm nor egg. It could be said that transgender people are, in fact, genderless, or that they are one, of an impossible number of new genders.
This notion links to my current work as, although our minds, as viewers, merge the photo being held up, to the face underneath, as our minds like to recognize and view whole faces, the photos held can never truly be part of the person underneath. This is like how a transgender person, biologically, can never truly be part of the opposite gender.