Toinen Minä
Series made for the Master’s Theses 2012 from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Featured in Culturalist 2022.
https://culturalist.fi/teksti/toinen-minae
Some people who have been together a long time, start to remind each other. Photos talk about this. How similar the other one can feel. How the other one becomes a part of you. How the other one affects the other. How you change towards the other. And how you search yourself from the other one. How you search for what you know. It doesn’t matter what kind of relationship you have with the other one. Just how it affects the other one and yourself.
I photograph how people move with each other. How you relate to each other. How you touch each other. How you change into other one and change them. How you turn into one another. I photograph the power born from this.
You told me I was like your sister, like you. It was like looking into the mirror. Another me.
How rare it was