This work began as a drawing by the artist, which he used to create a set of photograms–photographs made without a camera by placing an object directly on light-sensitive material. The final work is made from two layers. The above letters were created by hand-cutting tracing paper while the layer below was created by burning individual matches onto drawing paper. To create the final image, the artist used an elaborate system in the darkroom that includes multiple layers of plexiglass. Stettner overlapped his carefully-treated source works to create multiple illusions—a shift in focus and a false depth. The resulting image pulls apart a single word into distinct pages, complicating the boundary between seeing and reading through the inverse magic of photography.