Installation view of I'll Be Your Mirror
Galerie Lifebomb, Berlin, 2006
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During the launch party for this project, I invited guests to accompany me into a small “photo booth” for a portrait session. Over the next 48 hours I digitally manipulated the resulting portraits, creating falsely symmetrical twins from each half of a sitters face. The twin images were then printed and hung in the gallery for the official opening reception, during which the subjects returned to see their portraits and those of their friends. Throughout this process and the resulting responses and conversations, the art audience constituted the substance of the work: contributing as performers, as images, and as participants in the creation of meaning.