The TWIN SONNET:

On our creative quest to capture the nuances & intricacies of twinhood, we’ve forged an entirely new genre: the TWIN SONNET. We reimagined the classic 14-line sonnet, transforming it into a structured grid—and merged it with the format of the diptych. Inspired by artists like Robert Rauschenberg (Factum I & II), Allan McCollum (The Shapes Project), Jennifer Bartlett (Rhapsody), and Ray Johnson (Moticos), we’ve developed a bold visual language of graphic shapes, colors, and patterns to visualize the lived twin experience.

The beauty of the SONNET lies in the doubleness embedded within its very syntax. From alternating patterns of paired lines that rhyme to sequences and stanzas that crescendo into a couplet. Each line’s 10 syllables are translated into 10 cellular units, creating 280 modules in total. —This mathematical framework reflects our shared gestational time & echos our origin story of togetherness.

 Each TWIN SONNET becomes a conversation of mirroring, divergence, and interplay. Shapes shift, forms duplicate, patterns synchronize and repeat, drawing viewers into a dynamic rhythm—like a Gertrude Stein poem in motion:
"I double you, of course you do. You double me, very likely to be…"

The TWIN SONNET is more than just a visual and poetic experiment—it’s a reconfigurable system, a space for expressing the phenomenology of twinhood. Historically, the sonnet has been a vessel of resistance for marginalized voices; in our hands, it transforms into a double portrait, celebrating the fluid, relational, and rhythmic complexities of our twin bond.