The reflection is apparently the same as what we see 

Yet the image in the mirror is 

Virtual, inverted, alien

 

Floating vapour

snow/ hail/ graupel/ frost/ ice fog/ rain/ dew/ cloud/ fog

visible but invisible, touchable but untouchable, traceable but untraceable 

 

Exhale a breath of fog

Visualize a reply 

Take the spot of opposition 

Meditate in a spot of silence 

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Amidst the rising mist of a shower, a private realm for contemplation takes shape. Through a dialogue between Bruce Lee's 'Be Water My Friends' and quotes from 'The Little Prince', this work explores the intersection of youth and maturity, innocence and experience, with the self as a reference.

 

Mirror texts written on soap reveal themselves only when mist is present, while framed texts written in inverted pencil split everyday objects to form an elusive image - a secret realm that is always present in the mind, yet difficult to see.

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Dialogue: 

(1)

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water."

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on." One could not die for you."
 

(2)

"Put water into a cup. Becomes the cup. Put water into a teapot. Becomes the teapot."

"The people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them… On my planet I had a flower; She always was the first to speak…."
 

(3)

"Water can flow or creep or drip or crash." 

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
 

(4)

"Be water my friend."

"All grown-ups were once a child, though, only a few people remember."
 

(5)

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