THE SHATTERED MIRROR
Reflective piece, mirror
Truth is the shattered mirror strewn
in myriad bits;
while each belives
His little bit the whole to own
"The Kasidah of Hji Abu el-Yezdi", as translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
"The deepest mistake, is to think that your little shard or mirror reflect the whole."
Truth and the shattered mirror
The task of this piece is to offer a space for reflection about the significance of "truth".
We live immersed in a specific circumstance, a result of our sociological economical historical and cultural background, that affect dramatically our way of thinking. We hardly can scape from it but we can try to be more concious about the exitance of this cultural frame that shapes our way of viewing.
This image of the shattered mirror, where each shard of which reflects on part of a complex truth from its own particular angle. It is a metaphor that illustrates that you will find parts of the truth (along with much error) everywhere and the whole truth nowhere. The deepest mistake, is to think that your little shard of mirror reflects the whole.
The first step is not to assume our own truth to be absolute and totalitarian. Because it is totally dependant of our cultural frame. We can't be detached from our cultural frame, and reality is always captured from the cultural frame where "I" am immersed.
The shards of the mirror are a representation of Middle East map.