Many Negatives, Simple Prints

Layering the negatives creates difficult to read prints.  The response from viewers are mixed; some get drawn in and some "pushed out".  As my response, I decided to step back and create direct clear prints of the imagery.  These prints, which I connected into scrolls, became a record of the imagery and a code for others to read my more obscure work.  By manipulating the photographs in Photoshop, they became letters of a personal language. Trying to squeeze the images into the shape of the transparencies, they also began to reference botanical illustrations.  I made about 30-40 new negatives which were variations on each other.  Below are the almost-finished scrolls: