Artist Statement
It’s rude to stare, but the sight of twins is a challenge to even the most well-mannered among us. What must it be like to be a mirror image? How do each define themselves as an individual?
TIMELAPSE follows the adolescence of Miranda and Rebecca, from age fourteen up until their twentieth birthday. Having met them while shooting a feature for a magazine,
I recognized in them something more, that extra element that spoke to art rather than to commerce.
Since September 2007, we’ve embarked on a journey through their teenage years, one that depicts the alienation and detachment of that process, which is in stark contrast to the girl’s beauty. Add to this the striking aspect of their identical traits, and the result is otherwordly, yet rooted in the familiar, calling to mind the mythical qualities of fairy tales. These images remind us that such children’s stories used to be cautionary. Here, the girls inhabit a world that is colorful, but it is not sunny and bright with naivety-indeed, there is something in the air that creates a tension between what we see and what we perceive.
The passage from youth to womanhood is fraught with shadows and shifting light, and the coolness with which the girls regard us convinces us that these are not potential Sleeping Beauties, resigned to limbo until their escort into womanhood hacks through the briars.
I will follow them as they lead the way, themselves, imperturbable, over that threshold into maturity.
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