Ava Williams

PHOTO © AVA WILLIAMS

I hate answering the question, “What’s it like to be a twin?” because I can’t answer it accurately. I’ve been attached to my twin sister, Chloe, for 22 years. All children, including twins, go through a stage in adolescence where they separate from their parents, form their own opinions and become their own beings. Twins can find each other as third parents.

As a result, they have to separate from the other twin. In my experience, this was done reluctantly. We went to different colleges and were no longer together all the time. When I started to photograph Chloe, I dove into my true feelings of twinhood. I use photography to show the way our memories overlap and the bond that formed before we were born.

My pictures force people who have never met us to decipher between the two of us. Mimicking the identity struggle of twins through art is what keeps this project going. I want the audience to feel

what we feel when we are together, to feel what it’s like to be hyper-analyzed and to experience how different life is when your closest companion looks exactly like you.

PHOTO © AVA WILLIAMS

PHOTO © AVA WILLIAMS

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