Mirror of Identities

This series of photographs examines the way in which personal identity changes over time, and how the older self strives to make contact with the inner younger self. These pictures take us on a journey into the darker passages of the human psyche. Playing with allusions to the genre of gothic horror, the work uses the unmet gaze of the uncanny Other to interrogate the malleability of personal identity over the years—for time makes an Other of the Self. These pictures pose the riddle of what it means to be the same person through the long, dark passages of time, using the metaphor of a ruined medieval castle.. "Would my search ever come to an end? And did I really want to see what was there, when my pursuit finally found its mark? The key lay in another part of my life, a remote time that held the same self, the same me, but a self transformed and othered. I was tracking this – what was it? A self? An identity? – tracking it down long corridors, and in darkened chambers. I felt him watching, yet I couldn’t catch him or return his spectral gaze. When I turned to him, I never caught a glimpse. Was it day or night when the light dawned? It was futile to seek him in the outside world! I had to look inwards, in my own reflection. Here I found him: an identity lost in space and time."