Match
Today I am posting a photo of my assemblage Match from an ongoing series about twins. I am unsure about the basis for my personal interest in twins. There exists however, a universal fascination with the mystery of sameness and opposites, of duality and the stories that twins inspire. Across cultures and through history, myths of twins as: partners (the Roman Romulus and Remus), rivals (the Egyptian Osiris and Set), opposites (the Greek Apollo and Artemis), and two haves of a whole (the Greek Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux) are evidence of our interest and attempt to explain this intriguing natural phenomenon. Match is a play on the various definitions of the word match and the associated condition of twins. In my assemblage, Parcheesi is the organized game that may be characterized as a match. Contestants move color differentiated and matched disks by rolling a set of matched dice along paths that mirror (match) each other in visual ...