Final Project...

For my final project, I want to experiment with layers in my images. I'd like to either print my images on color paper, and sew parts of them together, and items overlaying others, in that the viewer can lift the item (example: umbrella, or person) up, so look beneath, seeing the individual without the item or person missing, and their reaction to it, as if it were a different scene....or a different timeline. A theme I may want to run with is something similar to "What would I do without ____?" So, the project may LEAN towards individuals relying on something.

Now, I'm debating between using fine matte paper, or maybe missing in some cloth via transferring the images onto, and perhaps either using some as the layer, or what lies beneath the layer.

I may frame the work, but it will be no larger than 6 x 6.

TWO final paintings....

I simply can't decide on the two....can anyone tell me which they prefer?