This picture should tell its story itself, if it does not; I have failed.

The collage was assembled in 6 layers from 5 photos. All photos were converted to black and white. The chair-fence photo was cropped, but not further enhanced. The portraits were copied and reversed into negative. Than the positive and negative version were merged. Tree bark from another photo was layered above the portraits in variegating transparency. Then the portraits were pasted into the basic picture also using transparency of different degrees. The writing was adder as final layer which was crafted from a photo of a page from a thesaurus. Some cloning, dodging and burning gave the finishing touch