The Diane Arbus exhibition in San Francisco in the late 90s was my first introduction to a portrait of twins. These few images became totemic in a way and since then, the identical twin portrait as a photographic theme has been well traveled.

I am interested in portraits of a twin alone without the benefit of their monozygotic other.

I hypothesize that such a portrait would truly offer insight into the individual twin...

As a photographer I’ve been speculating about what we might see in the eyes of a twin alone.

The resulting image would be powerful, especially if the viewer knew that the twin alone was perhaps thinking about their twin. Every individual represented in the portraits of this series will be asked to share the story of their twin in an accompanying narrative label. I have long thought that narrative is an inherently important part of portraiture. I tested this hypothesis in my last series of photographs for the show INK+SKIN+THE ROCK. The subjects with tattoos of Salt Spring Island were asked to talk about the significance of their tattoos. I was gratified to see gallery guests carefully reading the narrative label and then looking at the portrait and then back to the words and so on. I think that there may be something significant in the space between a twin alone and the ideation of the other.

Still just percolating this idea but I do hope to start the portrait series shortly.