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When I was a child I once heard a song with lyrics “where are you my half, I am missing you” and since that I was trying to find out how could one person feel himself or herself a half, not whole.

My first year in University I was studying philosophy and we learned Plato’s Symposium. The speech of Aristophanes made me very curious. It was an explanation why people in love say they feel “whole” when they have found their love partner. It is, he says, because in primal times there were three sexes : the all male, the all female, and the “androgynous,” who was half man, half woman and they were very powerful. The creatures tried to scale the heights of heaven and planned to set upon the gods . Zeus thought about blasting them to death with thunderbolts, but did not want to deprive himself of their devotions and offerings, so he decided to cripple them by chopping them in half, in effect separating the two bodies. Ever since that time, people run around saying they are looking for their other half because they are really trying to recover their primal nature.

“Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the tally-half of a man, and he is always looking for his other half.”

This was the main idea of the project I started to work in 2009. I wanted to show two parts of a person, one male and another female. I also believe that each of us still has both entities.We all are different and look different but there is something we all have in common. We are all looking for our better half.