Using self-portraiture as a variety of female characters, Clare Marie Bailey stages a series of images to create cinematic and dreamlike narratives that explore the idea of Doppelgangers and Parallel Lives. It investigates the possibility of simultaneously co-existing in multiple universes, alternative realities, and dreamscapes. Through female characters, Bailey explores feelings of loneliness, longing and an ambivalent sense of disconnection and connectedness. Baily's work is heavily influenced by the cinema, magical iconography, and the counterculture of the 1960s and B-Movies. She uses film to create a parallel world where she can co-exist with the ‘real’ world.