just a week prior though, i was faced with another such 'coincidence'. someone believed me to be their finish-australian musician friend. not only did i look like her - but we shared the same name. once asked, i had to agree..

i [am] curious who could this other me be..

a search on the internet did not come up with much. then again, what exactly am i searching for? and how might [she] be indexed?

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939
Rene Magritte, La Reproduction Interdite, 1937

'Most of us have two lives.
The life we live, and the unlived life within us.
Between the two stands Resistance'.
[Steven Pressfield, The War of Art']

Duplications of self are most often seen as twins (or future-clones), one's shadow, a reflection from a mirror or water surface, a double or doppelgaenger .. which might be the case here..

Twin studies are a fascinating way to determine heritability, or to understand the nature/nurture ratio. in other words, what forms us? the inherited, genetic material or the social surrounding? i expected it to be half/half, studies are inconclusive, but they provide fascinating examples, that [identical] twins separated at birth end up living almost identical lives.

The shadow, really, is a two-dimensional casting of the physical body, but it is most often associated with the suppressed side of oneself, the 'shadow personality'. A reflection, or refraction, akin to the Narcissus' myth, could be looked upon as a reversed duplication, or as a hint at another dimension, like Alice's journey down the rabbit hole. Lars Gustafsson's Death of a Beekeeper, was an influential science-fiction story relating the story of Lars Lennart Westin, who by entering the 4th dimension, returned with his left and right side inverted, more so, it changed his world view from pessimistic to optimistic.

A double is a look-alike, acting on your behalf during public appearances or in a photo-shoot, substituting an actor for scenes of nudity or in stunts.