Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
—Rembrandt van Rijn
doppelgänger
Doppelgänger is a loosely linked and ongoing collection of self-portraits in various mediums. Not a series per se, rather a lifelong investigation of self through observation and interpretation. Despite the many hundreds of self-portraits I have made, each effort seems:
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.
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