Photo number two: Untitled

We see one woman in black from the back, one woman from the front in white.  A black fine-knit lacy and transparent fabric veil stretched between them rather like a tennis net, a separation is drawn.  The black dress is textured, styled, the white floaty flimsy  dress is thin-strapped, nightwear, dance wear, underwear.    Both are creating a deliberate gesture, the woman in black her head tilted forward, her hand behind her head, the one in white her head turning away, slightly back,  her arm in front of her head obscuring her face, a swooning expression, almost a refusal, an acceptance to show refusal.  Both look not quite awake, not vibrantly alive, both seem to be witholding, posturing blindly.  

Are we as viewers behind the woman in black as she looks in a mirror?  Yet the  'reflection' is not a mirror image, it is the same person, yet different.  The two don't quite connect, neither with mirrored gesture nor their regard which does not cross, yet they are in relation with one another, indirectly, in an interconnected dance. Their faces and gestures are not fully visible to us as viewers, nor to each other, they are not understandable, there is a disconnect, a lack of completion, a mysterious asymmetry.  The word reflection means etymologically 'to bend back, to turn away', as if a reflection were a process, a reaction, a posture, an interaction, a distortion, not the symmetrical mechanical definition we are more familiar with in the mirror.  

Asymmetrical reflection