The Room Behind the Mirror

Photorealistic close-up of a secondhand mirror resting on a bedroom dressing table. Its reflection shows the same room decades older, walls rotting and furniture buried beneath dust. The viewer’s reflected chair is occupied by a rigid, shrouded figure whose pale hand has pushed through the glass, gripping the real tabletop. Beneath the shroud, the face presses forward with the unmistakable contours of the person looking into the mirror. Hairline fractures radiate from its wrist, silver backing flakes onto the wood, restrained colour, chilling photographic realism, no text.