colleen woolpert response

i feel very fortunate to have been able to attend her lecture because i relate to her work because i myself am a twin. i even talked with her afterwards about getting in touch and maybe working together, or at least talking about twinship and what that means and our unique but very similar experiences with it. i found her work interesting as a more interactive on a social help level. she is clearly interested in helping people for she made her work originally to help her sister and then proceeded to do more work highlighting blind communities and giving them voice. her later work with the stereoscope doesn't really reflect this need because it seems like she ended up become the spokes person for the stereoscope as a lot of her work became about using it and bringing attention to this sort of old 3d art form. she talked about moving into something else and i asked her if she would be interested in doing more twin stuff, and she said absolutely, so i hope to be able to get to do something with her in regards to that. my sister did some pieces about the subject and how two bodies existed together fighting for space in the womb, I've also done new media work with the same idea in mind using cloth and lights. i would like to maybe work with her on more new media work and using technology to show the symmetry of twins. twins themselves seem to be "exotic" like their own species and its only an experience one can understand if they themselves were a twin. two bodies growing in unison, shaping together and separately at the same time. i could go into more but here is the piece that i did. the cloth is the representation of the the womb that me and my sister occupied and the two lights represent us. the stamp activated the lights by completing the circuit.