I had a look at The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self Portraiture in the Twentieth Century so that directed a lot of my thoughts towards considering the body as object and objectification of the female body.
I was also reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley which is really interesting in its discussion of a fictitious future society where people are conditioned to fulfill certain roles in society. "Community, identity, stability"
Stemming from ideas around Henry Ford's mass production this society uses the Bokanovsky Process (cloning) to produce "ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines".
me and Katie
The recurring images surrounding twins and identity were particularly relevant to me as an identical twin.
(The Savage's description of scenes at the hospital, pg 185)
"Twin after twin, twin after twin, they came - a nightmare. Their faces, their repeated face - for there was only one between the lot of them -...the ward was maggoty with them. They swarmed between the beds, climbed over, crawled under..."
"High, low, from a multitude of separate throats, only two voices squeaked or growled. Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors."
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