I began to use pairs and doubles to provoke questions about identity perception and the notion of the other in my most recent drawings. I explore an in-between space that draws on theories of the uncanny. The concept of a doppelganger encapsulates the mutability of identity by presenting the uncanny possibility that there could be another ‘you’ in existence. Identity is to a certain extent based on perception and preconceived notions. In my art practice I use what are considered to be traditional materials that have a certain history attached to them, yet in a form that confounds expectations. A simple pencil drawing seems to become a wood burn, a digital print transforms into a pastel drawing, a supposed oil painting is painted entirely in wax. Based on found studio portrait photographs from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, my interpretation of the images accentuate or tease out a certain ambiguity regarding gender and sexuality. I am intrigued by paradoxical outcomes and the cognitive dissonance caused by presenting contradictory ideas simultaneously. The distinction between mechanical reproduction and hand-drawn images, for instance, is blurred in my practice of ‘reproducing’ drawings which in turn, raises questions about the notions of authenticity, perception and otherness.