"What is a sense of one's self? To a large extent, it has to do with touch, with how we feel... Not that our sense of self is necessarily accurate. Each of us has an exaggerated mental picture of our body... Touch fills our memory with a detailed key as to how we're shaped. A mirror would mean nothing without touch... But, above all, touch teaches us that life has depth and contour; it makes our sense of the world and ourself three-dimensional." -Diane Ackerman
I chose this particular section because it is accurate how differently we view ourselves and how we have a different view than what others see. I wanted to demonstrate different perspectives with the mirror. The water was used to show the distortion that we sometimes see and the depth that our minds are capable of seeing. While taking the picture, it was interesting to see the difference between what I was seeing without the mirrors, the mirror on the left, and the mirror on the right. They contain the same content, yet a slight change in perspective changes the image itself. What we touch gives us a sense of what something looks like.
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