Mostly I failed. I preferred to photograph what caught my fancy immediately, rather than truly favorite things. These clowns represent, perhaps, my creepiest things.
Photographed in various degrees of shadow.
I couldn't just do an innocent shoot with these criminals.
These guys, aside from color schemes, are dressed identically, and have the same face.
Doubles and twins interest me on several levels.
This photo series maybe emphasizes the oddity of it.
But besides oddity, the concept of doubles resonates with me
maybe because of the other self concept.
Whenever I hear of twin separation, like when one twin dies, I find it disturbing;
I feel it deeply, whether it is someone who loses a twin as a child,
a teen, an adult, or in infancy. Elvis Presley had a stillborn twin.
Philip K Dick had a fraternal twin. A sister. She died at six weeks.
Accounts of how this affected him are down right bizarre, leading me to believe that
sometimes non-identical twinship can be as powerful a kinship as identical.
...................Wow, just read this: the "K" in Philip K Dick is "Kindred".
I have known the pain of severing ties with people I had deep emotional attachments to.
Think, if that person was your twin...
This pair seems to be grown-older versions of two rubber baby figurines I picked up in a
dollar store maybe 15 years before I bought these. Two very sad, depressed looking babies.
The babies so symbolized my personal dread and woe in life that I had to have them.
Below, you'll see a death figure,
I think it was an earring or necklace in its early days,
had rhinestones for eyes once.
I don't know what the twins think of it.
