My existence began from the splitting of one egg into two identical halves. Our mirrored bodies overlapped and contorted to fill the same small space. Boundaries grew out of bone and skin. We emerged tangled, but separate.

My drawings and paintings are an investigation of the physical and psychological implications of twinness. Curiosities about navigating a dualistic life—living simultaneously as an individual and a pair—are made visual.
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Whether manifested in the form of seemingly banal objects, such as half-filled water glasses or a pair of door knobs, or in the shape of a body sharing and giving its space to another, the tension and pressure of the double are made Visceral by the proximity of their forms. I work to graph the often tacit and unseen dimensions entwined in the duplexity of our lives.

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Sophie Brenneman (b. 1989) is a visual artist, poet, and educator.
She earned her BFA in Drawing & Painting from The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS, and her MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
she is a professor of visual art at penn state altoona.