ABSTRACT
The work of whitney explores the complex bond that connects most twins and their unique experience of existence. A twin herself, her interest in researching and conveying her experience and that of her brother's, as well as that of other twins, is a challenging and highly personal journey. It is this oneness, arguably the closest kind of bond two human beings can have to one another, that never quite gets conveyed when twins are photographed together. By splitting and aligning individual portraits of twins, Whitney powerfully conveys this unresolved separateness and togetherness. Depending upon birth order and dominance she shifts the frame of each half portrait out of alignment. The effect reinforces the split between the two halves and provides additional negative space around the actual images. In the case of the twins in the second photograph each is blind in one eye, which could be learned from the notebook.
