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var sc_project=10817399; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="1dad6a34"; var scJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://secure." : "http://www."); document.write(""); adjective: relating to a mirror, a reflector, or reflection./ noun: the branch of optics that deals with reflection.

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"The mirrors of the house were soaped, as if the glass had become victim to a strange indoor frost corresponding to the wide winter."

From 'The Favourite Game', Leonard Cohen

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Robert Smith photographed by his wife Mary Poole.

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Archie Thompson - Old mirror (1941) Watercolor, pen, ink and graphite on paperboard, ~ 45x60 cm

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Max Beckmann - Vor dem Spiegel {Before the Mirror} (1923)

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Leonard Cohen: 1988 Interview & New Biography | KCRW

https://www.kcrw.com/stories/leonard-cohen-1988-interview-new-biography

"It’s very hard for me to locate a view of myself. It’s one of the things I’m least interested in. I’m reminded of that story I read in Dalva, a novel by Jim Harrison, who is speaking of certain tribes where the white man tried to introduce the mirror, and certain native American tribes refused to accept the mirror. The reason was, they said, that your face is for others to look at."

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"The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images."

Zen proverb, sometimes attributed to Chuang Tzu

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"Il y a beaucoup de miroirs, ça veut dire qu'il y a beaucoup de réalités."

Louise Bourgeois

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Sandman 25th Anniversary Poster

Here's the original art for a Sandman poster I did years ago. Various artists drew different characters from the series, and this was m

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THE MIRROR (2026) A Short Film | Featuring Jamal Sterrett

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John O'Connor (British, 1913-2004), Moon and Round Pool, c.1960. Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London

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Léon De Smet (Belgian, 1881-1966), Evening Sun over the River Lys. Oil on canvas, 82 x 100 cm.

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"Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?"

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart