Why a Negative? (Shroud Face Close-Ups) Cleared close-ups of the Shroud face. Here’s the question I keep coming back to: Why would an artist create a *negative*—an image that truly “reads” only when we reverse the tones centuries later? Either it was an accident (highly unlikely), they somehow anticipated photography… or the Artist is God, who sees beyond time. I’m sharing a few still frames from the reel my enhanced study portrait (drawn straight from the original image, blended carefully with