Doppelgänger is a loosely linked and ongoing collection of self-portraits in various mediums. Not a series per se, but rather a lifelong investigation of self through observation and interpretation. Despite the hundreds of self-portraits I have made, each effort seems "a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating, in the general mess of imprecision of feeling, undisciplined squads of emotion." (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets). Such wrestling with what can be seen and with what can be felt or known provides a scaffold of ostensible focus, one that allows the real work of introspection and self-annihilation to occur.
Doppelgänger
To study the self is to forget the self...
Eihei Dōgen, 1224 CE
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
Rembrandt van Rijn