"palimpsest"

I asked to myself, “If I’d come across to myself in the street, would I recognize her?”
"Maybe I am not what I thought as" I replied.

These are my new bodies reformed entirely from the photographs of my own body parts.

One of the most identical part of my body is my face. Met with me once, people are able to recognize me whenever they come across to me. I, on the other hand, can only see my face through a mirror, in a photograph or on a video. In other words, I am not exposed to my face that much.

In addition, my understanding about my facial appearance is very fragile and subjective, at the same time biased towards on my perception about it. This is why I am trying to ignore some of my photographs as representation of self, even at some point in time I have been captured in such a certain pose by the camera.

So, this raised a lot of questions on my mind:
Is it possible for me to introduce and identify myself to me? How can I know that this is, the thing in this body, so called me, still me all the time? What should I use/look for to recognize myself?

I am aware that self is a changing phenomenon, but with this project I am trying to set forth certain identifiers for myself. These bodies are representing my personality traits and feelings, using the symbolism that I built through the animals.

palimpsest : something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form