"Good Lord," I said to myself. "I believe that, by being confronted by myself in this here mirror, I have just questioned the long-held notion of painting transcending reality."
Actually, I was trying to see whether I could read the print on my t-shirt in the mirror's reflection.
As I read the caption accompanying Art & Language's 'Mirror on canvas', I slowly bit a hole into the bottom of my water bottle and let the remaining droplets of water fall on to my feet, which were protected only by flip-flops.
The relief afforded by those little splashes of H2O stopped me from saying "it's a fucking mirror" to the be-dreaded passers-by, who looked equally as unimpressed being confronted by themselves as I was.
By taking this photograph, however, I have used this reflective surface to give you a window to a world that you cannot see (at least not right now, anyway), thus restoring balance and cancelling out Art & Language's original purpose.
And think whilst i was stood just to the left of you as you took this picture i didn't know any of this was going on in your head.
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Of course you need to
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