In 2009, I invited a selection of friends and acquaintances to sit for a series of portraits made in my studio.

Using a white armchair as a fixed visual anchor, each portrait was produced from two exposures, with the chair repositioned slightly between frames.

What began as a formal experiment gradually revealed something less predictable. The subjects appeared divided between overlapping states — simultaneously familiar and strangely altered.

The doubled structure of the images creates a sense of psychological displacement, as though another presence, identity, or version of the self exists alongside the person being observed.

The title references the idea of the persona as mask — the constructed face presented to the outside world, and the unstable identities that may exist beneath it.