The image in the mirror must be completed through the eyes of subject. It is like the nymph who desires, and must be combined with the perceiving subject to be given meaning.
The image changes with the subject's gaze, and is tempted by the conflicting forces of imagination and oblivion.
This change cannot be stopped, so it cannot reside within itself and therefore cannot break free.
So how can a mirror complete an image within itself?
What is the drive to produce still images?
How can an image stabilize itself within an exact point in time?
Perhaps painting is also a mirror. The author constantly plunges into the image of the self, and can only see a reflection of a pattern of desire.
The painting is trapped in an arena between fraud and sincerity. In this sense it is not only trapped but condemned to be so and thus it is impossible: yet without declaration of being so.
Behind this, there is nothing else.
Will the author who trembles between two sides lose the possibility of completing a painting?
Or does the subject exist on the edge that balances the in-between as a category that might be termed the third state.