The Thing Plus the Thing’s Reflection




 What happens when an image’s reflection is apparently under-imposed, fractionally misaligned,  as in this photograph?  What is more real, the photograph of the thing itself, the thing’s reflection or the sum of these two?   It may seem there is a double exposure here, best observed in the visual echo of the daffodils and the stem of begonia flowers , and then there is that graphic echo of rabbits ears, though the Alessi kitchen timer  long ago ran out of tick,  in the same manner as the Velveteen Rabibit,  by the time it did, it was already real, and so it doesn’t matter that it does nothing but keep me company, and smile for in photographs. 

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