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Kristina Rogers, who lived in the Charlotte area for much of her life, relentlessly worked to develop new ways of working with photography. One of these included composing images by “sandwiching” or layering negatives so that the images were printed superimposed over one another. Pushing this technique even further, she would sometimes re-photograph the printed photograph created from the layered negatives. Many of the works on display here incorporate this technique. Rogers also used her photographs as collage elements, in some cases cutting them up and using parts of them, in others, using whole prints. As former Mint curator Amber Smith has written, Rogers’ work foreshadowed the age of digital manipulation. Her “unique process of combining layered prints with her meticulous hand-collage technique perfectly enacts the postmodern theories that disrupt traditional views of representation and authorship. . . . Rogers’ working method lent itself to the notion that meaning is not fixed and stable, but rather always evolving and changing, and that the viewer brings new meaning to the work, just as the artist does.” Rogers’ art has a haunting sense of poetry to it. While her own biography is frequently a subject, universal themes are found throughout her oeuvre, including family ties, the passage of time, life and death, and the tension between the man-made and natural worlds.