Doppelganger​​​​​​​

My artwork explores the idea of "doppelgangers" - spiritual doubles of objects and people. Through photographic manipulation, specifically bending images, I aim to create distorted alternate versions that reveal hidden aspects of the original subjects.

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The inspiration comes from old German folklore about doppelgangers as shadow selves (Merriam-webster.com, 2017). In modern times, we all cultivate identity duality between our inner and outer presentation. Social media allows us to curate how we are perceived. We become adept at modifying ourselves to fit desired personas.

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Yet our true inner identities remain, sometimes surfacing mysteriously like doppelgangers without our awareness. As Gonzalez-Torres and Fernandez-Rivas (2013) stated, "Identity is never static whether on an individual or a social level, it is immersed in a perpetual process of change." My artwork gives form to these alter egos by digitally bending and distorting photographic subjects. The resulting doppelganger versions provide new perspectives by exposing undertones of the familiar.

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My goal is to create eerie, thought-provoking doppelganger counterparts that invite self-reflection on the multilayered nature of identity. By revealing the uncanny double lives of everyday objects and people through bent imagery, I hope to capture the perpetual changeability and duality inherent in self-perception.