Self-Reflection: Since Man Discovered His Image in the Lake. by Moz (David Vuillermoz)
In the silence of the Green Lake, mirrors stand, enigmatic, like fragments of a hidden reality. Here, no face is reflected. No human silhouette appears. These unresponsive surfaces become doors to the invisible, thresholds between the visible and the imaginary—like so many invitations to step through the looking glass, like Alice, into a world where landmarks are blurred and absence becomes language.
In this series, Moz depicts mirrors embedded in the natural landscape, devoid of any human presence. Placed in the pure and timeless setting of nature, the mirrors are no longer simple objects of self-contemplation, but tools for questioning. They become the reflection of a civilization that, in its ceaseless quest for the perfect image, has forgotten the profound meaning of its own being. Without the human, the mirror reveals a simultaneous absence and presence: an opening to what escapes our daily gaze, an invitation to go beyond appearances and confront introspection.
This choice not to include humans in the reflections allows Moz to question our relationship to images and to contemporary civilization. The mirror thus becomes a symbol of this absence: it questions the quest for perfection, fixed identities, and the superficiality of self-image, while reminding us that nature, free of all artifice, can offer a more authentic and profound response.
The mirror, without a reflection of the self, becomes a metaphor for this absence: a threshold between two worlds. It invites us to cross this invisible border, to dare to pass to the other side where perhaps a forgotten part of ourselves awaits.
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