[8] By the mid-1960s Wells was experimenting with creating multiple layers in an image by running exposed film back through the camera.
[8] In 1968 she created the series "The Glass Menagerie" and left Rochester to teach at the University of California in Los Angeles.
In the summer of 1970 she worked at the Penland School in North Carolina as a photographer instructor and she led a zazen meditation group there.
[6] She moved to the mountains of New Mexico after her time in North Carolina and lived without electricity, running water, or a telephone.
[10] Around this time, Wells worked at the University of New Mexico and exhibited at the Santa Fe Gallery of Photography.