Under The Influence Inspiration: Cornelia Hediger

Cornelia Hediger is a Swiss artist working in the United States.  I am intrigued by her Doppelgänger series, in which she digitally manipulates a twin version of herself.  Her two selves are posed and shot in a variety of beautifully and meticulously set-up scenes.  Each photograph creates a narrative that I find interesting.  She places her selves in a framework that is broken up into bordered areas.  The way that the image within each block interacts, blends into and also opposes the neighboring block of image space adds an incongruous yet visually-activating touch.  I'm excited to see what conceptual direction I will take, and to get back to scene setting and self-portraiture.