The entire picture is a layered paper-cut collage: flat sheets of matte card cut with a craft knife, stacked in overlapping layers whose crisp edges cast narrow paper-edge shadows that reveal each layer's depth; visible paper grain on every surface; palette of deep plum-purple, burnt orange, warm cream and mossy green card on black backing paper; completely matte, cut and assembled by hand, not digital-smooth.
A square 1:1 picture. A flat rectangular Halloween postcard made of layered cut paper fills the frame nearly edge to edge, its straight outer edge set in from the canvas edge on all four sides so a band of fully transparent background shows around the card. The postcard is a picture frame: a wide ornate border of stacked paper cutouts surrounds one large empty rectangular window whose interior is fully transparent from front to back. The window sits slightly above centre; its height is exactly four thirds of its width, a height-to-width ratio of four to three, a portrait opening visibly taller than wide, never square and never wider than tall. The window opening is cleanly cut with a straight inner edge, and no shadow, decoration or paper fragment reaches into the opening. In the border's lower-left corner a tiny cheerful haunted house is built from paper layers: crooked roof, one lit amber window, a small porch. A blank perforated postage-stamp shape cut from orange paper sits in the border's upper-right corner, and a second smaller blank stamp shape sits in the lower-right; a cream crescent moon completes the top border. Every border decoration stays entirely on the paper border and never crosses into the transparent window.
Light falls evenly on the card face apart from the narrow shadows at layer edges. Every surface is blank: no lettering, no address lines, no postmarks, no printed patterns on the stamp faces, the card completely unlettered. Nothing blocks the window; the only transparency is the window interior and the surround around the card, a real alpha channel with no checkerboard pattern.
